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Lecanora brasiliana Zahlbr.

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).

Taxonomic Literature: Lumbsch, H.T., Guderley, R. & Elix, J.A., Bryologist 99: 269-291 [273-275] (1996).

Biogeography: Continent: Southern America.

Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin or thick. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine), matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.

Ascocarps: Becoming adnate. Margin: Lecanorine, verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, dark brown, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont sparse. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 10-15-15-(20) µm wide, not basally widened, 10-15-15-(20) µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, brownish red or dark brown, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: Orange or brownish red; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (6.5)-7.5-10.5-12-(12.5) µm long, 4.5-5.5-6-(7) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Immersed.

Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform.

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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