Lecidella glaucopa (Hook. f. & Taylor) Kalb
Data Set Maintenance: Data set authentic; reviewer(s): Knoph J.-G.; revised @EXCL@ not revised (03-10-10); to be published after submission.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecidella. Synonyms: Lecidea oculans Nyl.; Lecidea conflectens Nyl.; Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855); Lecanorales.
Type Information: Basionym: Lecidea glaucopa Hook. & Taylor; London Journ. Bot. 3: 637 (1844); Zahlbruckner, Catal. Lich. Univ. 3: 768 (1925).
Taxonomic Literature: Knoph, J.-G. & Leuckert, C. (1997): Chemotypes and distribution patterns of the non-saxicolous species of Lecidella (Lecanoraceae, Lecanorales). - In: Türk, R. & Zorer, R. (eds): Progress and Problems in Lichenology in the Nineties - IAL 3. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica 68: 129-134.
Biogeography: Continent: Africa and Southern America.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous.
Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts; separate thallus parts thin (up to 0.2 mm). Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing or persistent (rarely at the thallus margin, up to 0.1 mm thick); black. Upper Surface: Lemon (citrine), rough.
Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative.
Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, becoming adnate to soon sessile, slightly constricted at the base, sparse or moderately abundant, up to 9999 (IMPORT PROBLEM, please resolve following string manually: 'up to 3.0' (The current numeric data 9999 are inserted only as a placeholder and should be discarded)) mm in diam.. Margin: Lecideine/biatorine, distinct (from the beginning). Disk: Plane, black, epruinose. Exciple: Carbonized; dark blue or dark green. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present. Epithecium: Apical cells not swollen or slightly swollen, pale green or turquoise. Hymenium: White; not inspers. Interascal Hyphae: Scarcely branched or distinctly branched (rarely), not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.
Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or ovoid.
Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin or hopane-6a,22-diol.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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