Paradoxomyces Matzer (1996)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Paradoxomyces. Arthoniaceae Reichenb. (1841); Arthoniales.
Type Information: Type: Paradoxomyces nymanii Matzer.
Taxonomic Literature: Matzer M., Mycol. Pap. 171: 1-202 [93-96] (1996).
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; epiphyllous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct.
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, linear, not emerging. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown. Epithecium: Apical cells brownish yellow. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugols positive, hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.
Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence bitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ovoid, 16-20 µm long, 6-9 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; both transversally and longitudinally, 3-(3 and more)-99-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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