Cameroniaceae Kantvilas & Lumbsch

Lumbsch, H. Thorsten, Kantvilas, Gintaras & Parnmen, Sittiporn, 2012, Molecular data support placement of Cameronia in Ostropomycetidae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota), MycoKeys 5, pp. 31-44 : 34

Cameroniaceae Kantvilas & Lumbsch fam. nov.

Type:

Cameronia Kantvilas, Lichenologist 44: 92. 2012.

Description.

Thallus crustose, photobiont a coccoid green alga. Ascomata perithecioid, immersed in the thallus, proper exciple rudimentary, hamathecium consisting of richly branched, anastomosing paraphysoids, inspersed with oil droplets, containin g hymenial algae, periphyses absent. Asci broadly obovate, with outer wall hemiamyloid and with a well-developed, non-amyloid tholus; ocular chamber lacking. Ascospores hyaline, non-halonate, eumuriform. Conidiomata immersed in the thallus, forming baciliform to bone-shaped conidia.