Rhexophiale Th. Fr. (1860)
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. Rhexophiale. Gomphillaceae W. Watson ex Hafellner (1984); Ostropales.
Type Information: Type: Rhexophiale coronata Th.Fr. (= R. rhexoblephara (Nyl.) Zahlbr.
Taxonomic Literature: Henssen A. in Farkas E.+., Lücking R. & Wirth V. (eds), Biblioth. Lichenol. 58: 123-136 (1995).
Biogeography: Checklist records: Great Britain and Sweden and Norway.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous or bryophytic.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; trentepohlioid. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct or crustose. Upper Surface: 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, soon sessile. Margin: Prominent. Exciple: Black, brown, white, or brownish yellow. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or brown.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus; septa present; transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface.
Conidia: Globose.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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