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Pseudopannaria (de Lesd.) Zahlbr.

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

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

Type Information: Type: Pseudopannaria marci (B. de Lesd.) Zahlbr.

Taxonomic Literature: Bouly de Lesdain, M., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 53: 582-586 (1906); Clauzade G. & Roux C., Bull. Soc. Bot. Centre-Ouest N.S. - Numero Special 7: 1-893 [642] (1985); Poelt J., Bestimmungsschlüssel Europäischer Flechten: 1-757 [544] (1969).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; bryophytic.

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

Thallus: Crustose, granular. Upper Surface: Brown; special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

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. Margin: External filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown. Interascal Hyphae: Present. Hypothecium: White.

Asci: Dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or fusiform, 65-88 µm long, 5-6 µm wide, aciculate; septa present; transversally septate, 7-10-transversally septate; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, 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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