Lecanora gangaleoides Nyl.
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: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).
Taxonomic Literature: Brodo, I.M., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 63-185 [127] (1984); Lumbsch, H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 77: 1-175 [96-98] (1994).
Biogeography: Continent: Africa, Europe, and Northern America.
Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.
Thallus: Rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin or thick. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verrucose or verruculose, lemon (citrine), pale grey, or grey-brown, matt or glossy (shiny), smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.
Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile, strongly constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, verruculose or crenulate, 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, dark brown, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 20-35-50 µm wide, not basally widened or basally widened, (20)-25-40-65 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells not swollen or slightly swollen, olive or dark green, cell pigment reacting with 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (12)-12.5-13-15 µm long, 6-7-8.5-(9) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Immersed.
Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform; (13)-14-15.5-17 µm long.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, gangaleoidin, and skyrin, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsidones and (anthra-)quinones.
Spot Tests: Upper surface: C , PD .
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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