Podotara Malcolm & Vezda (1996)

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. Podotara. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Podotaria pilophoriformis Malcolm & Ve zda.

Taxonomic Literature: Malcolm W.M. & Vezda A., Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 31: 263-268 (1996).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; epiphyllous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: 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, forming all across the thallus surface, stipitate. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Epithecium: Apical cells brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed to distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid tube; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 12-15 µm long, 2.5-3 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 3-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin, thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): ß-orcinol depsidones.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)