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

Taxonomic Literature: Brodo, I.M., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 63-169 [163-165] (1984).

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

Ascocarps: Not constricted or strongly constricted at the base. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose or slightly flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brown or brownish yellow, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not inspersed with crystals. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, distinctly developed, eucortical, 10-15-20 µm wide, basally widened, 20-45-70 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, hyaline, brownish red, or dark brown, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, (12)-12.5-14.5-16.5-(17) µm long, 7-9-11 µm wide; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin and roccellic acid, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides and (higher) aliphatic acids.

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