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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: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 5. Loxospora. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Brodo I.M. & Henssen A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 58: 27-41 (1995); Tønsberg T., Sommerfeltia 14: 211-214 (1992).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Sonoran Desert, Italy, Sweden and Norway, United States and Canada (continental), and Thailand.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, granular or areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent. Upper Surface: Grey, brownish yellow, or pink (rosé); special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate or isidiate; not sorediate or sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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 to substipitate. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, filiform or fusiform, obtuse or aciculate; septa present; transversally septate; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsides.

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