Peltula

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Peltula
Peltula euploca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lichinomycetes
Order: Lichinales
Family: Peltulaceae
Genus: Peltula
Nyl. (1853)
Type species
Peltula radicata
Nyl. (1853)
Synonyms[1]
  • Neoheppia Zahlbr. (1909)
  • Corynecystis Brusse (1985)
  • Phyllopeltula Kalb (2001)

Peltula is a genus of small dark brown to olive or dark gray squamulose lichens that can be saxicolous (grow on rock)) or terricolous (grow on soil).[2] Members of the genus are commonly called rock-olive lichens.[2]: 318  They are cyanolichens, with the cyanobacterium photobiont from the genus Anacystis.[2] They are umbilicate with flat to erect squamule lobes that attach from a central holdfast or cluster of rhizenes.[2] Lichen spot tests are usually negative.[2]

The thallus of members of the genus are similar to members of Heppia, Psora, and Placidium, although the first genus has cyanobacteria from the genus Scytonema, and the latter two genera have green algae as the photobiont.[2]

The genus is in the family Peltulaceae.[3]

Species[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Synonymy: Peltula Nyl., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 20: 316 (1853)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; 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.
  4. ^ Marques, Joana; Schultz, Matthias; Paz-Bermúdez, Graciela (2013). "A Peltula Nyl. diversity hotspot in north-east Portugal, with one species new to science and three species new to mainland Europe". The Lichenologist. 45 (4): 483–496. doi:10.1017/s0024282913000261. S2CID 85793533.
  5. ^ a b c d e Yang, Qiuxia; Cheng, Xiangmin; Zhang, Tingting; Liu, Xinzhan; Wei, Xinli (2022). "Five new species of the lichen-forming fungal genus Peltula from China". Journal of Fungi. 8 (2): 134. doi:10.3390/jof8020134. PMC 8878757. PMID 35205887.