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Thelidiopsis Vain. (1921)

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: 1. Thelidiopsis. Verrucariaceae Zenker (1827); Verrucariales.

Type Information: Type: Thelidiopsis robinsonii Vain.

Taxonomic Literature: Poelt J., Bestimmungsschlüssel Europäischer Flechten: 1-757 [653-654; Servit M., Rozpr. Ceskoslov. Akad. Ved. 65: 1-45 (1955)] (1969).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Sweden and Norway.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate non-calciferous.

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

Thallus: Indistinct or crustose, granular. Upper Surface: Grey or olive; special structures absent. 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: Perithecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface. Margin: External filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, 38-42 µm long, 15-16 µm wide; septa present; transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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