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Thermutopsis Henssen (1990)

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: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Thermutopsis. Lichinaceae Nyl. (1854); Lichinales.

Type Information: Type: Thermutopsis jamesii Henssen.

Taxonomic Literature: Henssen A., Lichenologist 22: 253-259 (1990).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate calciferous.

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

Thallus: Filamentose or granular. Upper Surface: Black; 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: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, 7-9.5 µm long, 6-8.5 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.

Conidiogeneous Cells: Apical. Conidia: Globose or bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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