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Data Set Maintenance: Data set compiled and standard item. Data set author(s): Kainz C. (02-06-12). Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Bryonora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855); Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Poelt J. & Obermayer W., Nova Hedwigia 53(1-2): 1-26 (1991).

Thallus: Separate thallus parts thick (podetia-like growing). Upper Surface: Dark brown, intense matt or glossy (shiny); special structures present: (pseudocyphellae in depressions of the thallus).

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, forming independently from the host thallus or mycelium (terminal on podetia-like structures). Margin: Not flexuose (first) or strongly flexuose. Amphithecial Cortex: Present. Episamma: Without episamma.

Ascospores: Broadly ellipsoid or oval, 11.5-15-(18) µm long, 5-6.5 µm wide; septa absent or present (rarely).

Pycnidia: Globular or ovoid. Conidia: Filiform or curved; 15-25 µm long, .8 µm wide.

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