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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Scholz P. (02-05-18). Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Synonyms: Lecidea (limosa); genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis)? @EXCL@ Psoraceae Zahlbr. (1898); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest, N.S. 7: 1-893 [453] (1985); Hafellner J. & Türk R., Stapfia 76: 1-167 [156, 166] (2001); Hawksworth D.L. & Coppins B.J. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The lichen flora of Great Britain and Ireland: 1-710 [331-332] (1992).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria @EXCL@ Germany @EXCL@ Great Britain @EXCL@ Italy @EXCL@ Sweden and Norway @EXCL@ United States and Canada (continental).

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

Thallus: Crustose, granular @EXCL@ areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing @EXCL@ persistent. Upper Surface: Grey; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form @EXCL@ with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, soon sessile. Wall: Not carbonized. Margin: Indistinct. Exciple: White. Epithecium: Apical cells bluish green. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to sparsely distinctly branched, sparsely distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Reddish brown.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or oblong-obtuse, (8)-10-14-(15) µm long, 3-4.5-(5) µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent; wall thin, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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

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