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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: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 4. Sporastatia. Catillariaceae Hafellner (1984); Teloschistineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero Special 7: 1-893 [712] (1985); Coppins B.J. & Gilbert O.L. in: Purvis O.W. et al. (eds), The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, London (1992); Hafellner J., Crypt. Bot. 5: 99-104 (1995).

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

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

Thallus: Crustose, areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Persistent. Upper Surface: Brown, grey, brownish yellow, or yellow; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures 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, not emerging, becoming adnate. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black, brown, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells black, brown, or green. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

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

Ascospores: More than 32 per ascus, globose, 2.5-4 µm long, 2-3.5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.

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