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Lecanora spissa Fée

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: Vänskä, H., Ann. Bot. Fenn. 23: 121-141 [127-129, sub. L. ahtii] (1986).

Biogeography: Continent: Southern America.

Ecology: Substrate non-calciferous.

Thallus: Areolate (primarily areolate); separate thallus parts thin or thick. Thallus Outline: Indistinct; soon disappearing. Upper Surface: Verruculose, lemon (citrine) or pale grey, matt, smooth or rough; epruinose; not sorediate.

Ascocarps: Soon sessile. Margin: Lecanorine, verruculose, smooth, not flexuose, persistent, prominent, concolourous with the surrounding thallus; without a thin rim between disk and thalline margin. Disk: Plane, brownish red or dark brown, 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, indistinct, eucortical, 10-20-30-(35) µm wide, not basally widened, 10-20-30-(40) µm wide at the base; inspersed with oil droplets. Epithecium: Apical cells slightly swollen, brownish red, hyaline, or dark brown, insoluble in 10% KOH. Hymenium: Not inspers. Hypothecium: White; not inspers.

Ascospores: c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, (7.5)-8-10.5-13.5-(14.5) µm long, 4-5-6-(6.5) µm wide; wall thin, not ornamented.

Secondary Metabolites: Atranorin and hopane-6a,22-diol, of the following substance class(es): orcinol depsides, (tri-)terpenoids, and (higher) aliphatic acids.

Spot Tests: Upper surface: C –, PD –.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)


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