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Malmideaceae
Malmideaceae is a family of crustose and corticolous lichens in the order Lecanorales. It contains eight genera and about 70 species. Taxonomy Malmideaceae was created in 2011 to accommodate a group of species, formerly placed in genus '' Malcolmiella'' (family Pilocarpaceae), that molecular phylogenetics showed to be a distinct lineage and worthy of recognition at the family level. The genus ''Savoronala'', containing the single African species '' S. madagascariensis'', was added to the family in 2013, while another monotypic genus '' Kalbionora'' was added in 2017. Description Malmideaceae is similar to Pilocarpaceae, but can be distinguished from that family by thallus organization and ascus structure. ''Malmidea'' species have a thallus made of goniocysts–spherical aggregations of photobiont cells surrounded by short-celled hyphae. This characteristic is quite rare in the Pilocarpaceae, only found in the monotypic genera '' Calopadiopsis'' and '' Pseudocalopadia''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmidea Furfurosa
''Malmidea'' is a genus of crustose lichens and the type genus of the family Malmideaceae. It was established in 2011 to contain a phylogenetically distinct group of species formerly placed in the genus '' Malcolmiella''. The crust-like thallus of ''Malmidea'' lichens has a surface that varies from smooth to rough, featuring textures such as (wart-like), (grainy), or (pimpled). These textures are often formed by , which are spherical clusters of green algal cells from the family Chlorococcaceae, encased in fungal hyphae. ''Malmidea'' comprises nearly 70 mostly tropical species that grow on bark, although a few grow on leaves. Taxonomy Both the family Malmideaceae and the genus ''Malmidea'' were created in 2011 to accommodate a group of species, formerly placed in genus '' Malcolmiella'' (family Pilocarpaceae), that molecular phylogenetics showed to be a distinct lineage and worthy of recognition at the family level. Klaus Kalb, Eimy Rivas Plata, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoronala Madagascariensis
''Savoronala'' is a fungal genus in the family Malmideaceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species ''Savoronala madagascariensis''. This lichen produces unique conidia (asexual spores) that each include a single algal cell. Taxonomy Both the genus and the specie were described as new in 2013 by Damian Ertz, Eberhard Fischer, Dorothee Killmann, Tahina Razafindrahaja, and Emmanuël Sérusiaux. The type (biology), type specimen was collected in Tôlanaro, Madagascar, in a coastal ''Erica (plant), Erica''-grassland. It was found growing on the stem of an ''Erica'' shrub. The lichen is known only from the type locality (biology), type locality. The area it was collected from is under pressure because of habitat destruction, charcoal production, and a nearby giant mine of ilmenite. Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed ''Savoronala'' be part of Malmideaceae, a family circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2011. Description Several features characterize the genus ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmidea
''Malmidea'' is a genus of crustose lichens and the type genus of the family Malmideaceae. It was established in 2011 to contain a phylogenetically distinct group of species formerly placed in the genus ''Malcolmiella''. The crust-like thallus of ''Malmidea'' lichens has a surface that varies from smooth to rough, featuring textures such as (wart-like), (grainy), or (pimpled). These textures are often formed by , which are spherical clusters of green algal cells from the family Chlorococcaceae, encased in fungal hyphae. ''Malmidea'' comprises nearly 70 mostly tropical species that grow corticolous lichen, on bark, although a few grow foliicolous lichen, on leaves. Taxonomy Both the family Malmideaceae and the genus ''Malmidea'' were created in 2011 to accommodate a group of species, formerly placed in genus ''Malcolmiella'' (family Pilocarpaceae), that molecular phylogenetics showed to be a distinct lineage (evolution), lineage and worthy of recognition at the family level. Kla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoronala
''Savoronala'' is a fungal genus in the family Malmideaceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species ''Savoronala madagascariensis''. This lichen produces unique conidia (asexual spores) that each include a single algal cell. Taxonomy Both the genus and the specie were described as new in 2013 by Damian Ertz, Eberhard Fischer, Dorothee Killmann, Tahina Razafindrahaja, and Emmanuël Sérusiaux. The type (biology), type specimen was collected in Tôlanaro, Madagascar, in a coastal ''Erica (plant), Erica''-grassland. It was found growing on the stem of an ''Erica'' shrub. The lichen is known only from the type locality (biology), type locality. The area it was collected from is under pressure because of habitat destruction, charcoal production, and a nearby giant mine of ilmenite. Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed ''Savoronala'' be part of Malmideaceae, a family circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2011. Description Several features characterize the genus ''Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalbionora
''Kalbionora'' is a lichen genus in the family Malmideaceae containing the single crustose species ''Kalbionora palaeotropica''. This lichen occurs in coastal forests in Thailand, Vietnam, and northeastern Australia, where it grows on tree bark. Taxonomy ''Kalbionora'' was circumscribed in 2017 by Mattika Sodamuk, Steven Leavitt, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch to contain a new lichen discovered by Sodamuk in a mangrove forest in eastern Thailand, where it was growing on the bark of ''Ceriops tagal''. The specific epithet refers to the occurrence of the lichen in the paleotropics, while the generic name honours German lichenologist Klaus Kalb. Although ''Kalbionora'' is morphologically quite similar to species from the genus ''Malmidea'' or ''Eugeniella'', molecular phylogenetic analysis shows that the species is a distinct lineage within the family Malmideaceae. Its standing as a genus has been accepted in recent large-scale updates of fungal classification. Description ''Kalbionora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhurbenkoa
''Zhurbenkoa'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi in the family Malmideaceae. It comprises three species. ''Zhurbenkoa'' fungi grow on the thalli of species in the widespread lichen genus ''Cladonia''. The genus was established in 2019 and named after the Russian scientist Mikhail Zhurbenko for his work studying fungi that live on lichens. These tiny parasites produce minute dark spots less than half a millimetre wide on their host lichens, and the three species can be distinguished by differences in their ascospore shapes and sizes. Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed in 2019 by Adam Flakus, Javier Etayo, Sergio Pérez-Ortega, and Pamela Rodriguez-Flakus, with '' Zhurbenkoa epicladonia'' assigned as the type species. Closely related genera are ''Savoronala'' and ''Sprucidea''. The generic name honours the Russian lichenologist Mikhail Zhurbenko, "for his magnificent contribution to knowledge on the biodiversity and systematics of lichenicolous fungi, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australidea
''Australidea'' is a genus in the family Malmideaceae. It is monospecific, containing a single species, the crustose lichen ''Australidea canorufescens''. The genus was circumscribed by Gintaras Kantvilas, Mats Wedin, and Måns Svensson in 2021 to contain the species previously known as ''Lecidea canorufescens''. This lichen is widespread in temperate In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of the Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ran ... Australia. References Malmideaceae Lichen genera Lecanorales genera Taxa described in 2021 Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas Taxa named by Mats Wedin {{Lecanorales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crustospathula
''Crustospathula'' is a genus of five species of crustose lichens in the family Malmideaceae. They are characterized by their stalked and sometimes branched cartilaginous soredia and ''Bacidia''-like apothecia. Taxonomy ''Crustospathula'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by lichenologist André Aptroot in 1998, with ''Crustospathula cartilaginea'' as the type species. This species was discovered by Aptroot in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea in an undisturbed tropical lowland rain forest. It was, according to Aptroot, the known instance of a crustose lichen with stalked, cartilaginous, labriform soralia. For this reason, it could not be assigned to any known genera, and ''Crustospathula'' was created to hold it. Aptroot initially assigned the genus tentatively to the family Bacidiaceae, because of the resemblance of generative structures with certain species of ''Bacidia''. It was later in the Ramalinaceae, until molecular phylogenetic analysis determined that its tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multisporidea
''Multisporidea'' is a fungal genus in the family Malmideaceae. It is monotypic, containing the single species ''Multisporidea nitida'', a corticolous lichen found in Réunion. The lichen has a dull, whitish to pale pinkish-brown thallus that is sometimes bordered by a black hypothallus measuring up to 0.3 mm wide. The lichen is unreactive to standard chemical spot tests, and no lichen substances are detected with thin-layer chromatography. Taxonomy Both the species and the genus were erected in 2021 by lichenologists Klaus Kalb and André Aptroot. The type was collected in the Cirque de Cilaos, where it was found growing on tree bark in the remnant of a rain forest, at an altitude of . The specific epithet ''nitida'' refers to the glossy apothecia, while the generic name alludes to the multi-spored asci. Description ''Multisporidea nitida'' grows as a thin, dull crust (thallus) that is whitish to pale pink-brown and scarcely thicker than a sheet of paper (about 0.05– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprucidea
''Sprucidea'' is a genus of four crustose lichens in the family Malmideaceae. Similar to the related genus ''Malmidea'', ''Sprucidea '' is characterized by frequently red thallus, thalli that contain the secondary metabolite, secondary compound norsolorinic acid, but differs in the rod-shaped instead of ellipsoid ascospores and in the stalked sporodochia as conidiomata. ''Sprucidea'' species are found in rainforest areas in South America and Southeast Asia. Taxonomy ''Sprucidea'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2017 by lichenologists Marcela Cáceres, André Aptroot, and Robert Lücking. ''Sprucidea granulosa, S. granulosa'' and the type species, ''Sprucidea rubropenicillata, S. rubropenicillata'', were species description, described as new to science, while ''Sprucidea gymnopiperis, S. gymnopiperis'' and ''Sprucidea penicillata, S. penicillata'' were two proposed new combinations from the genera ''Malmidea '' and ''Bacidina'', respectively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lecanorales
The Lecanorales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The order contains 26 families, 269 genera, and 5695 species. Families Suborder Lecanorineae * Biatorellaceae M. Choisy ex Hafellner & Casares-Porcel, 1992 * Brigantiaeaceae Hafellner & Bellem., 1982 * Bruceomycetaceae Rikkinen & A.R.Schmidt in Rikkinen et al., * Byssolomataceae Zahlbr. 1926 * Carbonicolaceae Bendiksby & Timdal (2013) * Catillariaceae Hafellner, 1984 * Cetradoniaceae J.C. Wei & Ahti 2002 * Cladoniaceae Zenker, J.C. 1827–1829 * Dactylosporaceae Bellem. & Hafellner, 1982 * Gypsoplacaceae Timdal, E. 1990 * Haematommataceae Hafellner, 1984 * Lecanoraceae Fée, A.L.A. 1824 * Malmideaceae Kalb, K., Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2011 * Pachyascaceae Poelt ex P.M.Kirk, P.F.Cannon & J.C.David, 2001 * Parmeliaceae The Parmeliaceae is a large and diverse family of Lecanoromycetes. With over 2700 species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheiromycina
''Cheiromycina'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi belonging to the family Malmideaceae. The genus has an almost cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en .... Species: *'' Cheiromycina flabelliformis'' *'' Cheiromycina globosa'' *'' Cheiromycina petri'' *'' Cheiromycina reimeri'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10448760 Malmideaceae Lecanorales genera Lichen genera Taxa described in 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
