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Lecanora umbrosa Degel.

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: Brodo, I.M., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 63-185 [161-162] (1984); Brodo, I.M., Owe-Larsson, B. & Lumbsch, H.T., Nord. J. Bot. 14: 451-461 [458-460] (1994).

Biogeography: Continent: Europe and Northern America.

Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose or areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Fimbriate; indistinct; white. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine), matt, smooth; epruinose; sorediate; soralia.3-.8-1.2-(1.3) mm in diam., white or yellow, isolated, not confluent with other soralia, soredia coarse, 25-40-50-(52) µm in diam..

Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile, not constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, abundant, dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 25-30-35-(40) µm wide, basally widened, 25-45-60 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Without episamma. Epithecium: Apical cells not swollen or slightly swollen, brownish red, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid, 11-13.5-15.5-(16) µm long, (5.5)-6-8-10 µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin, 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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