Lecanora japonica Müll. Arg.
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: Miyawaki, H., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 64: 271-326 [315-317] (1988); Guderley, R. & Lumbsch, H.T., Lichenologist (1998), in press.
Biogeography: Continent: Asia-Temperate.
Ecology: Lignicolous or corticolous.
Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; white. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine) or pale green, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile, strongly constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to distinct, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red, 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, indistinct, eucortical, 10-15-20 µm wide, not basally widened or basally widened, 20-35-50 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, brownish red, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 to 12-16 per ascus, ellipsoid, (12)-12.5-14.5-16.5-(17) µm long, (6)-6.5-7.3-8 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Adnate.
Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform; 15-16.5-18 µm long.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.
Spot Tests: Upper surface: C , PD .
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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