Lecanora helva Stizenb.
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: Lumbsch, H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 77: 1-175 [100-103] (1994).
Biogeography: Continent: Africa, Australasia, Southern America, and Pacific.
Ecology: Lignicolous or corticolous.
Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; black. Upper Surface: Verrucose or verruculose, lemon (citrine) or lime green, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate or sorediate; soralia.1-.2-.3 mm in diam., white, isolated, not confluent with other soralia, soredia coarse, 25-30-35 µm in diam..
Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish yellow, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, (10)-15-20-25 µm wide, not basally widened, (10)-15-20-25 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells not swollen, hyaline or brownish red, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (8)-8.5-11.5-14 µm long, (4)-4.5-5.5-7 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Immersed.
Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform; (14)-15-16-18 µm long.
Secondary Metabolites: 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid, atranorin, and arthothelin (2,4,5-trichloronorlichexanthone), of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides and xanthones.
Spot Tests: Upper surface: C , PD .
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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