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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. Ropalospora. Ropalosporaceae Hafellner (1984); Teloschistineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Ekman S., Bryologist 96: 582-591 (1993); Hafellner H., Beih. Nova
Hedwigia 79: 241-371 [334] (1984).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden and Norway, United States and Canada (continental), and Republic of South Africa.

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

Thallus: Crustose, granular, rimose, or areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent. Upper Surface: Grey, green, brown, olive, or brownish yellow; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate or sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

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; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black, brown, white, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown, white, or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, entirely amyloid throughout; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 or more than 32 per ascus, fusiform or filiform, 16-55 µm long, 5-7 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 3-7-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; immersed or sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface or along the thallus periphery.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, ß-orcinol depsides, (higher) aliphatic acids, (anthra-)quinones, and dibenzofurans [and usnic acids].

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