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Lecanora praeferenda (Nyl.) 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. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).

Biogeography: Continent: Southern America.

Ecology: Corticolous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose; separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verruculose, pale grey, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile, not constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, crenulate, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to distinct, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brown or grey-brown, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White or lemon (citrine), dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, distinctly developed, 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 or slightly swollen, hyaline or brownish red, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (11)-12-14-16 µm long, 7-8.5-10 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

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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