Mycoporellum Müll. Arg. (1884)

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: 7. Mycoporellum. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Dothideales.

Type Information: Type: Mycoporellum sparsellum (Nyl.) Müll. Arg.

Taxonomic Literature: Poelt J., Bestimmungsschlüssel Europäischer Flechten: 1-757
[405-406] (1969).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, and Republic of South Africa.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous; substrate non-calciferous.

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

Thallus: Crustose. Upper Surface: Black, grey, green, brown, white, or olive; 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: Perithecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging, stromatic. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Absent or present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or filiform, 11-100 µm long, 4-15 µm wide; septa present; transversally septate, 1-8-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)