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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Aptroot A. (95-02-10); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Pyrenographa. Requienellaceae Boise (1986); Pyrenulales.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid or perithecioid, linear, forming all across the thallus surface, becoming adnate. Wall: Not carbonized, not fused. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Hymenium: Oil inspersed. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence bitunicate.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 13-15 µm long, 6-7 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 3-transversally septate, formed by the endospore wall layer; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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