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Lecanora casuarinophila Lumbsch

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., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 77: 1-175 [74-75] (1994).

Biogeography: Continent: Australasia.

Ecology: Corticolous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts; separate thallus parts thick. Thallus Outline: Arachnoid; indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Lemon (citrine) or pale green, matt, smooth, byssoid or pulverulaceous; epruinose; not sorediate.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile, not constricted or strongly constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose or slightly flexuose, persistent, distinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red or brown, pruina scarce. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 10-15-15-(20) µm wide, basally widened, 10-20-25 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, hyaline, brownish red, or dark brown, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (12)-12.5-15.5-17.5 µm long, 6.5-7.5-8.5-(9) µm wide; wall thin or thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, 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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