Lecanora melaleuca (Müll. Arg.) C. W. Dodge
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. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).
Taxonomic Literature: Lumbsch, H.T., Guderley, R. & Elix, J.A., Bryologist 99: 269-291 [283] (1996).
Biogeography: Continent: Africa.
Ecology: Corticolous.
Thallus: Areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; white. Upper Surface: Verrucose or verruculose, lemon (citrine), matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.
Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, 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, 15-20-25 µm wide, not basally widened, 15-20-25 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells not swollen or slightly swollen, dark brown, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: Brownish red; not inspers.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, oblong, (11)-11.5-13.5-16 µm long, 4.5-5.3-6 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, lichesterinic acid, and hopane-6a,22-diol, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, (tri-)terpenoids, and (higher) aliphatic acids.
Spot Tests: Upper surface: C , PD .
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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