Miriquidica limitata Hertel & Rambold
Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. (96-02-07). Data set reviewer(s): Kainz C. (00-10-02); to be published after submission; 96-02-07.
Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Miriquidica. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).
Taxonomic Literature: Hertel, H., Rambold, G. 1987. Miriquidica genus novum Lecanoracearum (Ascomycetes lichenisati). Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 23: 377-392.
Biogeography: Continent: Europe.
Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized.
Thallus: Crustose, areolate (primarily areolate). Thallus Outline: Simple or lobed; persistent; black. Upper Surface: Grey, olive, or brownish yellow; not sorediate. Lower Surface: Not rhizinate.
Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile, .6-.8 mm in diam.. Margin: Lecideine/biatorine, indistinct to prominent. Disk: Black. Exciple: Not carbonized; grey, brown, white, or brownish yellow. Epithecium: Apical cells olive. Hypothecium: White.
Ascospores: 9-12 µm long, 3-5.5 µm wide.
Secondary Metabolites: Fumarprotocetraric acid, miriquidic acid, and protocetraric acid.
(report generated 04.Okt.2007)
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