Paraporpidia Rambold & Pietschm. (1989)
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: 8 (A. Aptroot 99-09-27). Paraporpidia. Porpidiaceae Hertel & Hafellner (1984); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.
Type Information: Type: Paraporpidia aboriginum Rambold.
Taxonomic Literature: Rambold G., Biblioth. Lichenol. 34: 1-346 (1989).
Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous; substrate non-calciferous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct or crustose, not subdivided parts, granular or rimose. Upper Surface: Green, grey, orange, red, or white; 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: Apothecioid, orbicular or irregular, forming all across the thallus surface, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black, brown, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black, brown, orange, or red. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or brown.
Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; dehiscence lecanoralean.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 10-18 µm long, 4.5-8 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; immersed, formed all accross the thallus surface.
Conidia: Filiform.
Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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