Poeltidea Hertel & Hafellner (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: 1. Poeltidea. Porpidiaceae Hertel & Hafellner (1984); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Poeltidea perusta (Nyl.) Hertel & Hafellner.

Taxonomic Literature: Hertel H., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 399-499 (1984); Rambold G., Biblioth. Lichenol. 34: 1-346 (1989).

Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate non-calciferous.

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

Thallus: Crustose, areolate (primarily areolate). Upper Surface: Brown; 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, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown, white, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown, green, or olive. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

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

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 27-45 µm long, 12-22 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, pale brown, or dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)