Limoniella ramalinae
≡*Patellaria ramalinae Müll.Arg., Flora 66: 79 (1883).
Description : Lichenicolous, on thallus of host. Ascomata black, ±immersed at first, becoming sessile to short-pedicellate, margin subirregular, ±occluded at maturity, disc plane to convex, 150–350(–600) μm diam. Exciple of dark, thick-walled, conglutinated hyphae, without hairs or periphysoids; lateral parts violaceous to purplish brown, K+ green or partly violaceous-(brown); basal parts greenish brown, K+ green or violaceous-brown. Hymenium colourless or pale violaceous, K− or in part K+ green or violaceous, c. 50 μm tall, KI−; epithecium red-violaceous, K+ green or partly violaceous, N+ yellowish brown. Paraphyses simple or apically branched, swollen at apices, not pigmented. Asci clavate, wall not or only slightly thickened, with a small but distinct ocular chamber, KI−, 50–63 × 7–10 μm, 8-spored. Ascospores colourless, 1-septate, smooth, without a perispore, cylindrical to narrowly ellipsoidal, straight or slightly curved, multiguttulate, (10–)12–16(–17) × 3– 4 μm.
N: ? S. ?: Known also from Western Australia (as * Patellaria ramalineae [see Filson 1986: 217] and Victoria in Australia (Diederich & Etayo 2000: 457).
Australasian
Host : Thallus of Ramalina celastri.
Illustrations : Diederich & Etayo (2000: 456, figs 9A–C, 10).
* Llimoniella ramalinae is characterised by: the lichenicolous habit (on Ramalina celastri as host); black, sessile to short-pedicellate apothecia; and colourless, 1-septate, smooth-walled, multiguttulate, non-halonate ascospores, 10–17 × 3– 4 μm.
