Verrucariaceae template_01

Data Set Maintenance: Data set template, compiled, and standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. @EXCL@ Breuss O. @EXCL@ Nash T.H. Data set reviewer(s): Nash T.H.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1 (Number entered as dummy value). Verrucaria. Synonyms: x; Verrucariaceae Zenker (1827); Verrucariales.

Type Information: Type: x; protologue: x; type specimen label data: x.

Taxonomic Literature: Taxonomic notes: x. X.

Biogeography: Northern hemispheric; holarctic, arctic, subarctic, boreal, Mediterranean, subtropical, pantropical, neotropical, palaeotropic, subantarctic, antarctic, and cosmopolitan; coastal, colline, submontane, montane, upper montane, subalpine, and alpine. Continent: Africa, Antarctica, Asia-Temperate, Australasia, Europe, Northern America, Southern America, Pacific, and Asia-Tropical. Checklist records: Mexico, Sonoran Desert, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Saprobic or biotroph; lichenized or lichenicolous; terricolous, bryophytic, lignicolous, corticolous, or saxicolous; endosubstratic or episubstratic; growing sun-exposed, partially shaded, or fully shaded; under conditions which are dry, moist, or wet; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Coccobotrys, Dilabifilum, Heterococcus, Myrmecia, and Stichococcus.

Thallus: Indistinct, crustose, or foliose, not subdivided or subdivided into main parts, squamulose, placodioid, areolate (primarily areolate), or granular, peltate or subsquamulose, areoles not dispersed or dispersed, umbilicate; lobes angular or rounded at the front; separate thallus parts (0)-0-0-0-(0) mm wide; thin or thick; (0)-0-0-0-(0) mm thick. Thallus Size and Differentiation: Very small, small, medium-sized, or large; (0)-0-0-0-(0) cm in diameter; main branches basally not constricted or basally constricted. Thallus Outline: Irregular or orbicular; simple, zonate, lobed, or arachnoid; indistinct or distinct; margin entire, undulate, crenulate, or lobulate. Upper Surface: Verrucose, grey, brown, dark brown, grey-brown, olive, brownish yellow, or brownish red, glossy (shiny), vitreous, or matt, rough or smooth, byssoid or erose; not fissurate or fissurate; fissures sparingly developed or strongly developed; epruinose or pruinose; pruina scarce or abundant, greyish or whitish, continuous or patchy. Lower Surface: Absent or present, black, dark brown, grey-brown, brownish yellow, brownish red, or pale brown; attached by the whole lower surface or attached by holdfasts; not wrinkled or wrinkled, wrinkles isolated or reticulate; not rhizinate or rhizinate; rhizines sparse, moderately abundant, or abundant, brownish yellow or brownish red.

Upper Cortex: Absent or present; (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm high; prosoplectenchymatous or paraplectenchymatous; single-layered or double-layered; outer cortical layer prosoplectenchymatous or paraplectenchymatous; inner cortical layer prosoplectenchymatous or paraplectenchymatous. Medulla: (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm thick, white or pale brown, compact, dense, loose, or very loose, becoming hollow. Lower Cortex: Absent or present; (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm thick.

Ascocarps: Perithecioid, not emerging, becoming adnate to soon sessile, (0)-0-0-0-(0) mm in diam.. Wall: Not carbonized, carbonized only in parts, carbonized around the ostiole, lacking a clypeus, or with a carbonized black clypeus around the ostiole, not fused or fused. Margin: Black, brownish yellow, pale brown, or lemon (citrine). Exciple: Not inspersed with crystals. Amphithecial Cortex: Outer cortical layer black, white, or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent or present; not gelatinized or gelatinized. Episamma: Without episamma or with episamma; crystalline. Epithecium: Without epithecium or with epithecium; apical cells hyaline, brownish yellow, or lemon (citrine). Hymenium: Not gelatinized or gelatinized. Interascal Hyphae: Absent or present, irregular, without predominant orientation or predominantly vertical; cells (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm long.

Ascospores: Not uniseriate or uniseriate, 1–2 to 12-16 per ascus, subglobose, broadly ellipsoid, ellipsoid, oval, or fusiform, (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm long, (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm wide; septa absent or present; transversally septate or both transversally and longitudinally; (0)-0-0-0-(0)-transversally septate; (0)-0-0-0-(0) longitudinal septa per transversal septum; wall thin or thick, (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm wide, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, dark brown, middle brown, grey, hyaline, or pale brown, not ornamented or ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sparse, moderately abundant, or strongly abundant.

Conidia: Oblong-obtuse or bacilliform; (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm long; (0)-0-0-0-(0) µm wide.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

Spot Tests: Absent reactions.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)