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Data Set Maintenance: Data set compiled (by C. Kainz, 03-04-10) and standard item.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Endococcus. Verrucariaceae Zenker (1827); Verrucariales.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: host lichens Aspicilia grisea, Aspicilia caesiocinerea, Aspicilia spec.; asci verrucarial, broadly clavate, 45-60 x 15-20 µm; hymenial gelatin I(Lugol)+blue, reddish brown when higher concentrated; Sonoran specimen: U.S.A. Arizona. Apache Co.: Apache N.F., Mt. Baldy Wilderness, along the trail to Baldy Peak from Sheep's Crossing, ca. 2900 m, 33°55'45''N, 109°33'W, Picea engelmannii forest in NE-exposition, on conglomerate boulders in the shade of the forest, on Aspicilia spec., Hafellner 55499 (GZU). Hafellner J. et al., Mycotaxon 84: 293-329[303] (2002); Hafellner J., Herzogia 10: 1-28 (1994).

Biogeography: Continent: Europe and Northern America. Checklist records: Sonoran Desert and United States and Canada (continental).

Ascocarps: Perithecioid, not emerging. Margin: Black (ascomatal wall in section brown, basally somewhat paler and 20-30 µm thick, near ostiolum distinctly thickened). Periphyses: Present (septate). Interascal Hyphae: Absent.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid (or fusiform), (13)-14-17-(18) µm long, 7-9 µm wide; septa present (median); transversally septate (young spores with distinct torus at the septum); wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, dark brown (young spores near the septum) or middle brown, not ornamented or ornamented (distinctly verrucose, young spores with compact perispore).

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