Phyllocratera Sérus. & Aptroot (1997)

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. Phyllocratera. Phyllobatheliaceae G. Bitter & F. Schilling (1927); Pyrenulales.

Type Information: Type: Phyllocratera papuana Sérus. & Aptroot.

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Diederich P., Sérusiaux E. & Sipman H.J.M., Biblioth. Lichenol. 64: 1-220 [132-135](1997).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; epiphyllous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Green; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures 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, irregular, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Wall: Not fused. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Present. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence bitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 55-71 µm long, 13-18 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; both transversally and longitudinally, 7-12-transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)