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Sclerophora Chevall. (1826)

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: 5. Sclerophora. Sclerophoraceae Tibell (1984); of unknown placement (incertae sedis).

Type Information: Type: Sclerophora farinacea (Chevall.) Chevall.

Taxonomic Literature: Middelborg J. & Mattsson J., Sommerfeltia 5: 1-71 (1987); Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Tibell L., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 597-713 (1984).

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

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; trentepohlioid. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Trentepohlia; Trentepohliaceae; Trentepohliales, Ulvophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct.

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, substipitate to stipitate. Margin: Distinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Hymenium: Mazaedioid.

Asci: Tholus not thickened; dehiscence prototunicate.

Ascospores: Globose, 3-6 µm long, 3-6 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected or present, of the following substance class(es): (anthra-)quinones.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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