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

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 2. Synonyms: Ramalea p. pt.; Cladoniaceae Zenker (1827); Cladoniineae; Lecanorales.

Taxonomic Literature: Hammer S., Bryologist 106: 162-167 (2003); Müller J., Bull. Herb. Boissier 4 (App. 1): 87-96 [88] (1896).

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; chlorococcal. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Trebouxiaceae; Trebouxiales, Trebouxiophyceae, Eukariota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Fruticose, squamulose. Thallus Outline: Persistent. Upper Surface: Olive; special structures absent; not pseudocyphellate; eciliate; without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not cephalodiate; not lobulate; without granules granules, without thalloconidia thalloconidia. Lower Surface: Not attached, thallus vagrant; special structures absent; not pseudocyphellate; not cyphellate; not rhizinate; without thalloconidia thalloconidia; not cavernulate; not tomentose.

Reproduction Strategy: With sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming directly at the thallus margin, substipitate to stipitate. Wall: Not carbonized. Margin: Distinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Brown. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, oblong-obtuse, 10-12 µm long, 4-5 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent or present (rarely very indistinctly septate); wall thin, not thickened at the septum, not constricted where the septum meets the spore wall, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Present, of the following substance class(es): dibenzofurans [and usnic acids] and ß-orcinol depsides (divaricatic acid).

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