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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: 10. Solorina. Peltigeraceae Dumort. (1822); Peltigerineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero
Special 7: 1-893 [709] (1985); Galloway D.J., Flora of New Zealand
Lichens: i-lxxiii, 1-662 [527-529], Wellington (1985); Gilbert O.L.
in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and
Ireland, London (1992); Keuck G., Biblioth. Lichenol. 6: 1-175
(1977); Krog H. & Swinscow T.D.V., Lichenologist 18: 57-62
(1986); Thomson N.F. & Thomson J.W., Bryologist 87: 151-153 (1984).

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

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Coccomyxa (A. Beck 22-05-97); genus incertae sedis; family of unknown placement (incertae sedis), Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont present.

Thallus: Foliose, not subdivided parts, lobed. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Grey or green; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate or cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; 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, not emerging. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, fusiform, or oblong, 30-165 µm long, 10-60 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-5-transversally septate; wall not thickened at the septum, laterally constricted where the septum meets the spore wall, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall ornamented.

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

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