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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Elix J. A. (95-06-01) and Scholz P. (02-05-16); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 2. Pseudephebe. Parmeliaceae Zenker (1827); Lecanorineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Brodo I.M. & Hawksworth D.L., Op. Bot. Soc. Bot. Lund 42: 1-164 (1977); Common R.S. & Brodo I.M., The Bryologist 98: 189-206 (1995); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [419-420], Wellington (1985); Hawksworth D.L., Lichenologist 5: 181-261 (1972); Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 16: 1-390 [250-251] (1981); Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Ryan B.D. in: Nash T.H. III et al. (eds) Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region vol. 1, 409-411, Tempe (2002); Thell A., Mattsson J.-E. & Kärnefelt I., Cryptog. Bot. 5: 120-127 (1995).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous or rarely lignicolous; substrate non-calciferous.

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

Thallus: Crustose or fruticose, not subdivided parts, filamentose or subfruticose. Upper Surface: Black or brown; 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, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface or directly at the thallus margin, soon sessile. Margin: Distinct or prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells olive. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched or distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed or distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with non-amyloid wide axial body and divergent amyloid flanks towards apex; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid or ellipsoid, 7-12 µm long, 6-9 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; immersed or sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface.

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