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Masonhalea Kärnefelt (1977)

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: 1. Masonhalea. Parmeliaceae Zenker (1827); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Masonhalea richardsonii (Hook.) Kärnefelt.

Taxonomic Literature: Elix J.A., Bryologist 96: 359-383 (1993); Kärnefelt I., Bot. Notiser 130: 101-107 (1977).

Biogeography: Checklist records: United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous.

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

Thallus: Foliose, not subdivided parts, lobed. Upper Surface: Brown; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Not attached, thallus vagrant; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming directly at the thallus margin, soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Grey or white. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with non-amyloid wide axial body and divergent amyloid flanks towards apex; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 8-13 µm long, 5-6 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sessile, formed along the thallus periphery.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsidones.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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