Steinia Körb. (1873)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Steinia. Aphanopsidaceae Printzen & Rambold (1994); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Steinia luridescens Körb. (= Steinia geophana (Nyl.) Stein).

Taxonomic Literature: Alstrup V. & Hawksworth D.L., Meddel. Grønland, Biosci. 31: 1-90 [66] (1990); Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest, N.S. 7: 1-893 [721] (1985); Diederich P., Sérusiaux E. & Boom, P.P.G. van den, Lejeunia 136: 1-47 [41-42] (1991); Faurel P. & Schotter G., Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afric. Nord. 25: 126-133 (1954); Hafellner J., Cryptog. Bot. 5: 99-104 (1995); Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 9: 1-258 [245] (1977); Poelt J. & Vezda A., Biblioth. Lichenol. 38: 377-394 [384-385] (1990); Printzen C. & Rambold G., Lichenologist 27: 99-103 (1995); Purvis O.W. in: Purvis O.W., Coppins B.J., Hawksworth D.L., James P.W. & Moore D.M. (eds), The lichen flora of Great Britain and Ireland: 1-710 [575-576] (1992); Rambold G. & Triebel D., Biblioth. Lichenol. 48: 1-201 [130] (1992); Stein B. in: Cohn F., Kryptog.-Fl. Schlesien 2(2): 1-400 [209] (1879).

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

Ecology: Biotroph; algicolous, lichenized, or lichenicolous; terricolous, bryophytic, or lignicolous.

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

Thallus: Indistinct or crustose, not subdivided parts, rimose. Upper Surface: Green, grey, or olive; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules or with granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. 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, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown or brownish yellow.

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

Ascospores: 12-16 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid or globose, 4-8 µm long, 4-6 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; 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, formed all accross the thallus surface.

Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Globose.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)