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Lecanora subcarnea (Lilj.) Ach.

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: Dickhäuser, A., Lumbsch, H.T. & Feige, G.B., Mycotaxon 56: 303-323 [317-320] (1995).

Biogeography: Continent: Asia-Temperate, Europe, and Northern America.

Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin or thick. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; white. Upper Surface: Verrucose or verruculose, lemon (citrine) or pale grey, matt, smooth, pulverulaceous; epruinose, pruina scarce; not sorediate.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, smooth, not flexuose, excluded, indistinct or prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Weakly convex, pink (rosé), pruina abundant. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, abundant, dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Absent, indistinct, pseudocortical, (20)-25-30-35 µm wide, not basally widened, (20)-25-30-35 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, hyaline or dark brown, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid, 10-12-14 µm long, 6-7.5-9-(10) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, 2-O-methylsulphurellin, protocetraric acid, and virensic acid, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, orcinol depsidones, and chromones.

Spot Tests: Upper surface: C –, PD – or + orange.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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