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Lobariella Yoshim.

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Scholz P. (02-05-18). Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 5. Synonyms: Lobaria subg. Durietzia C. W. Dodge; Durietzia (C. W. Dodge) Yoshim. nom. illeg.; Lobariaceae Chevall. (1826); Peltigerineae; Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Lobariella crenulata (Hook. in Kunth) Yoshim.

Taxonomic Literature: Yoshimura I. in: Marcelli M.P. & Ahti, T. (eds) Recollecting Edvard August Vainio, 85-94, São Paulo (1998); Yoshimura I. in: Nash T.H. III et al. (eds) Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region vol. 1, 270-272, Tempe (2002).

Biogeography: Checklist records: New Zealand and Sonoran Desert.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; corticolous; substrate non-calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial and chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent or present. Secondary photobiont taxonomy: Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota.

Thallus: Foliose, not subdivided parts, lobed. Upper Surface: Grey or brown; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate or pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate or isidiate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate (but with internal cephalodia); not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Attached by holdfasts; special structures absent or present:; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose or tomentose.

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, soon sessile to substipitate. Margin: Prominent. Exciple: White. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched to distinctly branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Tholus thickened, amyloid, with amyloid cap; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, filiform, 70-105 µm long, 5-9 µm wide, aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, up to 7-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, not ornamented.

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

Conidia: Bacilliform; not branched; aseptate; cell wall hyaline.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, orcinol depsidones, and (higher) aliphatic acids.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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