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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set reviewer(s): Lumbsch H. T. (98-03-19) and Timdal E. (95-04-20); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Anamylopsora. Agyriaceae Corda (1838); Agyriineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Lumbsch H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 83: 1-73 (1997); Schneider G., Biblioth. Lichenol. 13: 1-291 (1979) - sub Lecidea hedinii, Psora pulcherrima; Timdal E., Nord. J. Bot. 4: 525-540 (1984) - sub Lecidea pulcherrima; Timdal E., Mycotaxon 42: 249-254 (1991).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; terricolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Crustose, not subdivided parts, squamulose or rimose. Thallus Outline: Soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Brown or brownish yellow; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; tomentose.

Medulla: Iodine reaction in Lugol's solution negative; not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface or directly at the thallus margin, soon sessile to substipitate. Margin: Indistinct to distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: White or brownish yellow. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid or amyloid, with amyloid cap or tube and flanks; dehiscence lecanoralean; exoascus euamyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, broadly ellipsoid or globose, 7-11 µm long, 6-10 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sessile, formed all accross the thallus surface.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): benzyl esters.

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