Lecanora argillaceofusca Müll. Arg.
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Lumbsch H. T. & Guderley R. (98-09-01). Data set to be published after submission; 98-09-01.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).
Biogeography: Continent: Southern America.
Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.
Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose; separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; white. Upper Surface: Lime green or olive, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, smooth, not flexuose or slightly flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane or excavate, brownish red, brown, or dark brown, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not inspersed with crystals. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH or dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, distinctly developed, eucortical, 10-15-15-(20) µm wide, not basally widened, 10-15-20-(25) µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, brownish red, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, oblong, (7.5)-8-10-12-(13) µm long, 4.5-5.5-6-(6.5) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin and hopane-6a,22-diol, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides and (tri-)terpenoids.
Spot Tests: Upper surface: C , PD .
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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