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Pseudonitschkia Coppins & S. Y. Kondr. (1995)

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. Pseudonitschkia. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Dothideales.

Type Information: Type: Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis Coppins & Kondratyuk.

Taxonomic Literature: Coppins B.J. & Kondratyuk S.Y., J. Bot. Edinburgh 52: 229-236
(1995); Hawksworth D.L., Kirk P.M., Sutton B.C. & Pegler D.N.,
Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi. Eighth Edition: 1-
637 [380] (1995).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Republic of South Africa.

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

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont absent. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct.

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: Perithecioid, orbicular, soon sessile. Margin: Prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: Lugol’s negative, not hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: Black or brown.

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

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, fusiform or filiform, 33-63.5 µm long, 6.5-10 µm wide, aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 1-3-transversally septate; wall thick, distinctly differentiated into primary and secondary wall, not thickened at the septum, hyaline or pale brown, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented or ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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