Lopezaria Kalb & Hafellner (1990)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set not revised; to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Lopezaria. Megalosporaceae Vezda ex Hafellner & Bellem. (1982); Teloschistineae; Lecanorales.
Type Information: Type: Lopezaria versicolor (Fée) Kalb & Hafellner.
Taxonomic Literature: Kalb K., Lich. Neotrop. Fasc. XI (1990).
Biogeography: Checklist records: Guianas.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Crustose. Upper Surface: Special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.
Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean.
Ascospores: 1–2 per ascus, ellipsoid or ovoid, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-transversally septate; wall thin or thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed.
Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Globose or bacilliform.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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