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Lecanora plumosa Müll. Arg.

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: Lumbsch, H.T., J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 77: 1-175 [] (1994).

Biogeography: Continent: Africa, Australasia, Northern America, and Southern America.

Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Not subdivided parts, areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin. Thallus Outline: Zonate or fimbriate; indistinct; soon disappearing; white. Upper Surface: Verrucose or verruculose, lemon (citrine), brownish yellow, or grey-brown, matt, smooth or rough; epruinose, pruina scarce; wrinkled; not sorediate.

Upper Cortex: Gelatinized.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, verrucose or verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, indistinct to prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish yellow, epruinose, pruina scarce. Parathecium (proper excipulum): White, dissolving in 10% KOH. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present; crystals small, not dissolving in 10% KOH; photobiont abundant. Amphithecial Cortex: Present, indistinct, eucortical, 15-20-25-(30) µm wide, not basally widened, 15-20-25-(30) 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, 8-9.5-11 µm long, 4-5.2-6.5-(7) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Immersed.

Pycnidia: Cerebriform. Conidiophores: Vobis-type II. Conidia: Filiform; 14-15.5-17 µm long.

Secondary Metabolites: 2'-O-methylperlatolic acid and atranorin, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides.

Spot Tests: Upper surface: C –, PD –.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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