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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Kasalicky T. (98-06-10); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 2. Orphniospora. Fuscideaceae Hafellner (1984); Teloschistineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Diederich P., Sérusiaux E. & Sipman H.J.M., Biblioth. Lichenol. 64: 1-220 [124-125] (1997); Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero Special 7: 1-893 [544] (1985); Hafellner H., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 241-371 [312-313] (1984); Hawksworth D.L., Lichenologist 14: 131-137 (1982); Hertel H. & Rambold G., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 27: 111-123 (1988); Purvis O.W. & Coppins B.J. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992).

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

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

Thallus: Crustose, areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent. Upper Surface: Black, brown, or grey; special structures absent. 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, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells green or olive. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or brown.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, or ovoid, 9-18 µm long, 6-10 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum or thickened at the septum, hyaline, pale brown, or dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed, formed all accross the thallus surface.

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