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Nitidochapsa Stictoides
''Nitidochapsa'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. It has five species of corticolous lichen, corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2013 by the lichenologists Sittiporn Parnmen, Robert Lücking, and Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, H. Thorsten Lumbsch. The type species is ''Nitidochapsa leprieurii, N. leprieurii'', originally described in 1855 from specimens collected in French Guiana, as a member of ''Sticta''. Description The thallus of ''Nitidochapsa'' is continuous and can have a smooth to uneven surface, characterised by an olive-brown colour. When observed in a cross-section, the thallus of ''Nitidochapsa'' has a dense upper cortex (botany), cortex composed of tightly packed cells () and an irregular that partially lies beneath the bark's outer layer (endoperidermal). This genus typically lacks or rarely forms clusters of calcium oxalate, a common crystalline compound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He is a leading expert on foliicolous lichens–lichens that live on leaves. Life and career Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the University of Ulm. Both degrees concerned the taxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity of foliicolous lichens. His graduate supervisor was mycologist and bryologist Sieghard Winkler, who had previously studied epiphyllous (upper leaf-dwelling) fungi in El Salvador and Colombia. In 1996 Lücking was awarded the Mason E. Hale award for an "outstanding doctoral thesis presented by a candidate on a lichenological theme". His thesis was titled ''Foliikole Flechten und ihre Mikrohabitatpraferenzen in einem tropischen Regenwald in Costa Rica'' ("Foliicolous lichens and their microhabitat preferences in a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica"). In this work, Lücking recorded 177 foliicolous lichen species from the shrub layer in a Costa Rican tropical forest. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |