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Lecanora praesistens 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: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).

Taxonomic Literature: Guderley, R. & Lumbsch, H.T., Lichenologist (1998), in press.

Biogeography: Continent: Europe.

Ecology: Corticolous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin or thick. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine) or pale green, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.

Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.

Ascocarps: Becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, distinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin or with a thin, inner rim visible between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 20-30-40-(45) µm wide, basally widened, (25)-30-45-60-(65) µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen or distinctly swollen, hyaline or brownish red, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: 12-16 per ascus, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, 10-12.5-15 µm long, 5-7-9-(10) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Immersed.

Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidia: Filiform; 14-15.5-17 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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