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Sarea Fr. (1825)

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 or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 2. Sarea. Genus of unknown placement (incertae sedis); family of unknown placement (incertae sedis); Lecanorales.

Type Information: Type: Sarea difformis (Fr.) Fr.

Taxonomic Literature: Hawksworth D.L. & Sherwood M.A., Can. J. Bot. 59: 357-372 (1981).

Biogeography: Checklist records: Austria, Germany, Sonoran Desert, Italy, and United States and Canada (continental).

Ecology: Saprobic (resinicolous); lignicolous or corticolous.

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: Apothecioid, orbicular, soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct to prominent; external filaments absent. Exciple: White. Periphyses: Absent. Epithecium: Apical cells brown, hyaline, or brownish yellow. Interascal Hyphae: Present, scarcely branched, not or scarcely anastomosed. Hypothecium: Brown, white, or brownish yellow.

Asci: Tholus thickened, not amyloid; dehiscence lecanoralean.

Ascospores: More than 32 per ascus, globose, 2-3 µm long, 2-3 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; sessile.

Conidia: Globose.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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