Lecanora melacarpella 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: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).
Taxonomic Literature: Lumbsch, H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 77: 1-175 [112-115] (1994).
Biogeography: Continent: Australasia.
Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.
Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; white. 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, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose or slightly flexuose, persistent, 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 dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 25-27.5-30 µm wide, not basally widened, 25-27.5-30 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, dark brown, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 9-12-15.5-(16) µm long, 5.5-7.5-9.5-(10) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Conidiomata: Immersed.
Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform; 14-15.5-17 µm long.
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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