Lecanora chionocarpoides 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 [78] (1994).
Biogeography: Continent: Australasia.
Ecology: Corticolous.
Thallus: Not subdivided parts, areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine) or pale grey, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.
Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile, not constricted or strongly constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red or brownish yellow, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not inspersed with crystals. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, abundant, dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, distinctly developed, eucortical, 20-25-25-(30) µm wide, basally widened, (40)-45-55-65 µm wide at the base. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, brownish red, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Oil inspersed. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (9.5)-10-11.5-12.5 µm long, (6)-6.5-7.5-8 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, 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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