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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Döring H. (00-02-24). Data set to be published after submission; 00-02-22.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 2. Neophyllis. Sphaerophoraceae Fr. (1831); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: The type of boundary tissue present in the ascomata of Austropeltum,
Neophyllis and the mazaediate genera Bunodophoron, Leifidium and
Sphaerophorus is suggested as a synapomorphy of the family
Sphaerophoraceae. Wilson F., Victorian Naturalist 6: 61-69 (1890); Wilson F., J. Linn.
Soc. London Bot. 28: 353-374 (1891); Döring H., Henssen A. &
Wedin M., Australian J. Bot. 47: 783-794 (1999); Wedin M. &
Döring H., Mycol. Res. 103: 1131-1137 (1999); Wedin M.,
Döring H. & Ekman, S., Lichenol. 32: 171-187 (2000); Döring H. & Wedin M., Plant Biol. 2: 361-367 (2000); sub
Gymnoderma: Yoshimura, I., J. Jap. Bot. 48: 283-288 (1973).

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

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose or subfruticose. Upper Surface: Green, olive, or brownish yellow; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface or attached by holdfasts; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular or irregular, forming directly at the tip of the thallus parts, soon sessile to substipitate (usually a short stipe is formed which is a non-lichenized podetium, often supported by a pseudopodetium). Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Brown or brownish yellow. Epithecium: Apical cells black or brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or ovoid, 5-8-(13) µm long, (3.5)-4-5-(7) µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, hyaline, not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed or sessile.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsidones, ß-orcinol depsidones, diphenyl ethers, and dibenzofurans [and usnic acids].

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