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Lecanora achrooides Vain.

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Lumbsch H. T. & Guderley R. (98-09-01). Data set to be published after submission; 98-09-01.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Lecanora. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).

Taxonomic Literature: Elix, J.A. & Lumbsch, H.T., Mycotaxon 59: 309-317 [310] (1996).

Biogeography: Continent: Southern America.

Ecology: Corticolous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, rimose; separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing; black. Upper Surface: Lemon (citrine) or lime green, matt, smooth; epruinose; not sorediate.

Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent or excluded, indistinct to distinct, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish yellow, epruinose. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, not inspersed with crystals. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, distinctly developed, eucortical, 35-35-40 µm wide, not basally widened, 35-35-40 µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Episamma: Soluble in KOH. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, hyaline or brownish red, soluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid or oblong, (10)-11-12-12.5-(13) µm long, (5.5)-6-6-7-(7.5) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Arthothelin (2,4,5-trichloronorlichexanthone), atranorin, 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid, thiophanic acid (= 2,4,5,7-tetrachloronorlichexanthone), and usnic acid, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, xanthones, and dibenzofurans [and usnic acids].

Spot Tests: Upper surface: C + orange, PD –.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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