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Neolamya Theiss. & Syd. (1918)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Neolamya. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); of unknown placement (incertae sedis).

Type Information: Type: Neolamya peltigerae (Mont.) Theiss & Syd.

Taxonomic Literature: Aptroot A., Diederich P., Sérusiaux E. & Sipman H.J.M., Biblioth. Lichenol. 64: 1-220 [116] (1997); Keissler K. von, Rabenh. Kryptog.-Fl. 8: 1-712 [519-520] (1930).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Great Britain, Sonoran Desert, Sweden and Norway, and New Guinea.

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenicolous; terricolous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, not emerging, becoming adnate. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present. Hypothecium: Black or brown.

Asci: Tholus not thickened; dehiscence unitunicate; exoascus not amyloid, not hemiamyloid.

Ascospores: 12-16 per ascus, curved or filiform, 50-100 µm long, 2-3 µm wide, aciculate; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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