Scoliciosporum

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Scoliciosporum
Herbarium specimen of Scoliciosporum chlorococcum growing on the bark of a red maple
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Scoliciosporaceae
Genus: Scoliciosporum
A.Massal. (1852)
Type species
Scoliciosporum holomelaeum
(Flörke) A.Massal. (1852)
Synonyms[1]

Scoliciosporum is a genus of lichens in the family Scoliciosporaceae.[2]

Taxonomy[edit]

The genus was reinstated by Antonin Vězda in 1978 to contain crustose lichens with immarginate apothecia, gelatinized, branched and anastomosing paraphyses, eight-spored, usually Lecanora-type asci, and hyaline, multi-septate ascospores.[3]

Scoliciosporum was originally placed in the family Micareaceae by Josef Poelt in 1974.[4] This classification was rejected after the appearance of molecular phylogenetic studies in the mid-2000s.[5][6]

Habitat and distribution[edit]

Scoliciosporum species grow mainly on bark, stones and leaves. They occur mostly in temperate locales.[7]

Species[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Synonymy. Current name: Scoliciosporum A. Massal". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; Dolatabadi, S; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  3. ^ Vězda, A. (1978). "Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II" [New or lesser-known lichens in Czechoslovakia]. Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica (in German). 13 (4): 397–420. doi:10.1007/BF02851943. S2CID 27279985.
  4. ^ Poelt, J. (1974) [‘1973’] Classification. In The Lichens (V. Ahmadjian & M. E. Hale, eds): 599–632. New York and London: Academic Press.
  5. ^ Andersen, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2004). "Phylogeny of the Micareaceae inferred from nrSSU DNA sequences". The Lichenologist. 36 (1): 27–35. doi:10.1017/S0024282904013507. S2CID 85770914.
  6. ^ Andersen, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2005). "Disintegration of the Micareaceae (lichenized Ascomycota): A molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences". Mycological Research. 109 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1017/S0953756204001625. PMID 15736860.
  7. ^ Kantvilas, Gintaras (2008). "Observations on the genus Scoliciosporum in Australia, with the description of a second species of Jarmania". The Lichenologist. 40 (3): 213–219. doi:10.1017/S0024282908007779. S2CID 84627669.
  8. ^ Aptroot, André (2008). "A new Scoliciosporum from Madagascar". The Lichenologist. 40 (2): 119–122. doi:10.1017/S0024282908007743. S2CID 84644782.
  9. ^ Fryday, Alan M.; Medeiros, Ian D.; Siebert, Stefan J.; Pope, Nathaniel; Rajakaruna, Nishanta (2020). "Burrowsia, a new genus of lichenized fungi (Caliciaceae), plus the new species B. cataractae and Scoliciosporum fabisporum, from Mpumalanga, South Africa". South African Journal of Botany. 132: 471–481. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2020.06.001.