Lecidella | |
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Lecidella elaeochroma | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: |
Lecidella Körb. (1855) |
Type species | |
Lecidella viridans (
Flot.) Körb. (1855)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Lecidella is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Lecanoraceae.
Lecidella was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855. [2] It was not widely used until more than a century later, when Hannes Hertel recognized it first as a subgenus of Lecidea, [3] and then a couple of year after as a distinct genus. [4]
A phylogenetic analysis of the genus using 11 species (mostly from China) found that Lecidella species fall into three major clades, which were proposed as three informal groups: Lecidella stigmatea group, L. elaeochroma group and L. enteroleucella group. [5]
Lecidella species have a thallus that is crustose, and biatorine, meaning that it resembles the genus Biatora–having a proper exciple, which is not coal-black ( carbonised, but coloured or blackening. It has eight-spored asci of the Lecidella type. The ascospores are simple and hyaline, while the conidia are curved and threadlike. [6]
Morphologically similar genera include Japewiella, Carbonea, and Tasmidella. [7]
Lecidella was estimated to contain about 80 species in a popular 2008 text, [8] a number that was used in a (2020) survey of fungal classification. [9] As of December 2023 [update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 39 species in the genus. [10]
Lecidella | |
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Lecidella elaeochroma | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: |
Lecidella Körb. (1855) |
Type species | |
Lecidella viridans (
Flot.) Körb. (1855)
| |
Synonyms [1] | |
|
Lecidella is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Lecanoraceae.
Lecidella was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855. [2] It was not widely used until more than a century later, when Hannes Hertel recognized it first as a subgenus of Lecidea, [3] and then a couple of year after as a distinct genus. [4]
A phylogenetic analysis of the genus using 11 species (mostly from China) found that Lecidella species fall into three major clades, which were proposed as three informal groups: Lecidella stigmatea group, L. elaeochroma group and L. enteroleucella group. [5]
Lecidella species have a thallus that is crustose, and biatorine, meaning that it resembles the genus Biatora–having a proper exciple, which is not coal-black ( carbonised, but coloured or blackening. It has eight-spored asci of the Lecidella type. The ascospores are simple and hyaline, while the conidia are curved and threadlike. [6]
Morphologically similar genera include Japewiella, Carbonea, and Tasmidella. [7]
Lecidella was estimated to contain about 80 species in a popular 2008 text, [8] a number that was used in a (2020) survey of fungal classification. [9] As of December 2023 [update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 39 species in the genus. [10]