Telimena Racib. (1900)

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: 2. Telimena. Phyllochoraceae Theiss. & H. Syd. (1915); Phyllachorales.

Type Information: Type: Telimena erythrinae Racib.

Taxonomic Literature: Moreau F., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 98: 208-209 (1951); Müller E., Sydowia 27: 74-44 (1975).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; terricolous or epiphyllous; substrate calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct.

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging, stromatic. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown, white, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Present. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s positive, hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present. Hypothecium: Brown, white, or brownish yellow.

Asci: Dehiscence unitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, clavate, cylindrical, fusiform, or oblong-obtuse, 12-28 µm long, 3-6 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 1-3-transversally septate; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; immersed.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)