Stellifraga Alstrup & Olech (1993)
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); revised; to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Stellifraga. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); of unknown placement (incertae sedis).
Type Information: Type: Stellifraga cladoniicola Alstrup & Olech.
Taxonomic Literature: Alstrup V. & Olech M., Polish Polar Res. 14: 33-42 (1993).
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; terricolous.
Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.
Thallus: Indistinct.
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Present. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched. Hypothecium: Brown.
Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 13-14 µm long, 5-5.5 µm wide; septa present; transversally septate, 3-transversally septate; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative.
Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.
Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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