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Ocellularia cavata (Ach.) Müll.Arg., | ||
Flora 65: 499 (1882) Thelotrema cavatum Ach., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 33: 92 (1812). T: Sierra Leone, A.Afzelius s.n.; iso: S, UPS. Thelotrema inscalpens Nyl., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 5, 7: 319 (1867). T: Nova Granata [Colombia], A.Lindig 41; lecto: H-NYL 22558, fide A.Mangold, J.A.Elix & H.T.Lumbsch, Fl. Australia 57: 655 (2009). Ascidium punctulatum Leight., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 27: 171 (1869); Ocellularia punctulata (Leight.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 2: 599 (1923). T: Central Province, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], G.H.K.Thwaites 127; lecto: BM, fide M.E.Hale, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 8: 320 (1981). Ascidium croceum Kremp., Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 7: 25 (1875); Ocellularia crocea (Kremp.) Overeem & D.Overeem, Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 4, 3: 118 (1922); Phaeotrema croceum (Kremp.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 2: 606 (1923). T: Sarawak, Borneo, [Malaysia], O.Beccari 31c; holo: M. Ocellularia depressa Müll.Arg., Flora 69: 310 (1886). T: “Regio tropica”, coll. unknown; holo: G-Fée 246b. Ascidium xanthostromizum Nyl., Sert. Lich. Trop. Labuan Singapore 20 (1891); Ocellularia xanthostromiza (Nyl.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 2: 604 (1923). T: Singapore, E.Almquist s.n.; holo: H. Ocellularia exigua Müll.Arg., Hedwigia 31: 284 (1892). T: Amazonas, Brazil, Trail s.n.; holo: G. Thelotrema microascidium Vain., Hedwigia 46: 176 (1907); Ocellularia microascidia (Vain.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 2: 595 (1923). T: Thailand, J.Schmidt 11; lecto: TUR-V, fide A.Mangold, J.A.Elix & H.T.Lumbsch, Fl. Australia 57: 655 (2009); isolecto: C. Thelotrema chrysostroma Vain., Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., ser. A, 15(6): 187 (1921). T: Sarawak, Borneo, [Malaysia], Moulton s.n.; holo: TUR-V; iso: NY. |
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Thallus endophloeodal to epiphloeodal, to c. 200 µm thick, pale greenish grey to olive or brownish, dull to slightly glossy, smooth, rarely continuous, usually ±verrucose, often distinctly rimose; verrucae near ascomata often eroded, exposing the white to yellowish or distinctly orange medulla. True cortex discontinuous, to c. 15 µm thick, formed by irregular to periclinal hyphae, in parts replaced by a protocortex. Algal layer ±well developed, continuous; calcium oxalate crystals small to moderately large, scattered or clustered. Vegetative propagules not seen. Ascomata inconspicuous to conspicuous, to c. 1 mm diam., ±rounded to more often irregular, apothecioid when mature, solitary to marginally fused, immersed to moderately emergent, then verrucose-hemispherical to urceolate. Disc of mature ascomata with columella visible from above, entire, free, epruinose to slightly pruinose, conspicuously rather dark grey. Proper exciple not visible from above; thalline rim margin to 0.6 mm diam., ±rounded to angular, entire to split, moderately thick, concolorous with the thallus or brighter, occasionally slightly brownish; thalline rim incurved. Proper exciple fused, thin in the lower part, thicker above, dark yellow-brown to brown basally, dark brown to strongly carbonised above, often distinctly amyloid at the base. Hymenium to c. 160 µm thick, not inspersed, distinctly conglutinated; paraphyses parallel to slightly bent, somewhat interwoven, unbranched, with slightly thickened tips; columellar structures usually well developed, to 300 µm wide, entire, carbonised, with or without a few greyish granules. Epihymenium hyaline, with or without greyish to brownish granules. Asci 8-spored; tholus initially thick, moderately thin when mature. Ascospores transversely septate, fusiform to oblong-fusiform, rarely clavate, with narrowly rounded to subacute ends, hyaline, distinctly amyloid, 25–40 × 7–10 µm, with 6–12 (–13) locules; locules ±rounded to slightly angular, ±lentiform, with hemispherical to conical end cells; septa moderately thick, regular; ascospore wall moderately thick, non-halonate; endospore moderately thick. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY:Thallus K+ orange, C–, P–; containing the main ‘cinchonarum unknown’ (major) and the following ‘cinchonarum unknown’ accessory compounds: ‘spot 4’ (major to minor), ‘spot 1’ (minor to trace), ‘spots 2 and 3’ (trace to absent) (Frisch et al., 2006: 68). |
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Known from a single corticolous collection from rainforest in north-eastern Qld; also in South Africa and Central and South America. | ||
Mangold et al. (2009) |
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