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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01, 99-03-18); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Wernerella. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Dothideales.

Taxonomic Literature: Navarro-Rosinés, P., Roux C. & Giralt M., Bull. Soc. Linn. Provençe 47: 167-177 (1996); Navarro-Rosinés, P., Roux C. & Giralt M., Bull. Soc. Linn. Provençe 49: 137-138 (1998); Werner R.G., Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc. 19(1): 40-54 (1939).

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, not emerging. Wall: Not fused. Margin: Distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or brownish yellow. Epithecium: Apical cells hyaline. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; ocular chamber indistinct; dehiscence bitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 12-17.5 µm long, 5.5-8 µm wide, obtuse; septa present; transversally septate, 1-3-transversally septate, formed by the proper spore wall; wall thin or thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, laterally constricted where the septum meets the spore wall, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

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