Unguiculariopsis Rehm (1909)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Scholz P. (06-06-13, 07-05-11) and Triebel D. (98-01-01; 00-06-07); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 18. Unguiculariopsis. Leotiaceae Corda (1842); Leotiales.

Type Information: Type: Unguiculariopsis ilicincola (Berk. & Broome) Rehm.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: Anamorph: Deltosperma Zhuang. Alstrup V. & Hawksworth D.L., Meddel. Grønland, Biosci.
31: 1-90 [73-74] (1990); Coppins B.J., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard.
Edinburgh 45: 171-173 (1988); Diederich P. & Etayo J.,
Lichenologist 32(5): 423-485 (2000); Etayo E. & Diederich P.,
Bull. Soc. Naturalistes Luxemb. 97: 93-118 [106, 114-115] (1996);
Kondratyuk S.Y. & Galloway D.J. in: Farkas E.+., Lücking R.
& Wirth V. (eds), Biblioth. Lichenol. 58: 235-244 (1995);
Kondratyuk S.Y. & Galloway D.J. in: Daniels F.J.A., Schulz M.
& Peine J. (eds), Flechten Follmann: 255-261, Cologne (1995);
Kondratyuk S.Y., Galloway D.J. & Hawksworth D.L., Acta Bot. Fenn.
150: 93-97 (1994); Rambold G. & Triebel D., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard.
Edinburgh 46: 375-389 (1990); Zhuang W.-y., Mycotaxon 32: 1-83
(1983); Zhuang W.-y., Mycol. Res. 104(4): 507-509 (2000); Zhurbenko M.P., Mikol. Fitopatol. 41: 126-129 (2007).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden and Norway.

Ecology: Saprobic or biotroph; lichenicolous or fungicolous; terricolous, bryophytic, lignicolous, or corticolous; 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: Apothecioid, orbicular, soon sessile to stipitate. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent or present. Exciple: Brownish yellow or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline, brownish yellow, brown, or orange. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Red, brownish yellow, brown, or orange.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence unitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, globose, ellipsoid, oblong-obtuse, or fusiform, 3-16.5 µm long, 1.5-6 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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

Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Ellipsoid; microconidial, not branched; aseptate; up to 0-septate; cell wall hyaline.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)