Phyllisciella Henssen (1984)

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: 3. Phyllisciella. Lichinaceae Nyl. (1854); Lichinales.

Type Information: Type: Phyllisciella marionensis Henssen.

Taxonomic Literature: Henssen A. & Büdel, B., Nova Hedwigia 79: 381-398 (1984).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate non-calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Hormathonema (A. Beck 19-05-97); Hydrococcaceae; Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Foliose, not subdivided parts, granular, rimose, or areolate (primarily areolate), umbilicate. Upper Surface: Black, brown, or red; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid or perithecioid, orbicular or irregular, forming all across the thallus surface, not emerging. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Ascospores: c. 8 to 16-32 per ascus, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, or globose, 4.5-8 µm long, 3-6 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.

Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Filiform.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)