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Resinogalea Araucana
''Resinogalea'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Cryptocaliciaceae in the subclass Cryptocaliciomycetidae of the class Eurotiomycetes. Originally described as a single-species genus in 2016, the genus now includes three known species. Taxonomy and phylogeny The genus was initially established by Jouko Rikkinen and Alexander Schmidt in 2016 to accommodate ''Resinogalea humboldtensis'', a fungus found on resin produced by the endemic tree '' Araucaria humboldtensis'' in New Caledonia. Initially, due to limited DNA data, the genus was placed in the unresolved family Bruceomycetaceae. In 2023, further research involving DNA analysis and morphological examination led to the description of two additional species, ''R. araucana'' and ''R. tapulicola''. These species were isolated from resin on the branches of the tree ''Araucaria araucana'' (the monkey puzzle tree) in Chile. DNA-based phylogenetic studies confirmed that ''Resinogalea'' belongs to the recently described sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fungi
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one of the kingdom (biology)#Six kingdoms (1998), traditional eukaryotic kingdoms, along with Animalia, Plantae, and either Protista or Protozoa and Chromista. A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. Fungi, like animals, are heterotrophs; they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Fungi do not photosynthesize. Growth is their means of motility, mobility, except for spores (a few of which are flagellated), which may travel through the air or water. Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. These and other differences place fungi in a single group of related o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptocaliciaceae
''Cryptocalicium'' is a single-species fungal genus of the order Eurotiomycetes that was circumscribed in 2021. It contains the species ''Cryptocalicium blascoi''. ''Cryptocalicium'' is the only genus in the monotypic family Cryptocaliciaceae, the order Cryptocaliciales and the subclass Cryptocaliciomycetidae. ''Cryptocalicium'' is a representative of the "mazaediate" or "calicioid" fungi, a polyphyletic group of independently evolved ascomycetes that share a morphological characteristic: the presence of a distinct structure in which loose masses of ascospores accumulate to be passively disseminated, called the mazaedium. Morphology Members of ''Cryptocalicium'' have very small stalked apothecioid ascomata that produce a mazaedium. The hymenium of the ascomata presents septate, sterile (i.e. not fertile) protruding elements. Their asci are clavate in shape with a long stalk, they are bitunicate with evanescent walls, and turn amyloid after a chemical treatment with KOH and I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurotiomycetes
Eurotiomycetes is a large class of ascomycetes with cleistothecial ascocarps within the subphylum Pezizomycotina, currently containing around 3810 species according to the Catalogue of Life. It is the third largest lichenized class, with more than 1200 lichen species that are mostly bitunicate in the formation of asci. It contains most of the fungi previously known morphologically as " Plectomycetes". Systematics and phylogeny Internal relationships The class Eurotiomycetes was circumscribed in 1997 by Swedish mycologists Ove Erik Eriksson and Katarina Winka. At that time it only contained the order Eurotiales, which together with the next order added, Onygenales, form a monophyletic group comprising most of the fungi in "Plectomycetes", a group no longer in use that unified fungi under exclusively morphological characteristics. As more orders were added to Eurotiomycetes, the first two along with Arachnomycetales became constrained to the first subclass, Eurotiomycetida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araucaria Humboldtensis
''Araucaria humboldtensis'', or Humboldt's araucaria, is a species of conifer in the family Araucariaceae. It is found only in New Caledonia. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease ..., as even though the remaining wild populations are located within protected park areas, an increased frequency of forest fires in recent years has led to continued degradation of habitat and increased dieback of mature trees. ''Araucaria humboldtensis'' is one of the smaller trees in its family, ranging from 6–15 m in height, with a distinct flattened crown in mature specimens. It is found in the wild only in three remnant populations in the south of the main island Grand Terre, growing on Mont Humboldt, Mont Mou and Mont des Sources at an altitude of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of the French Republic, a legal status unique in overseas France, and is enshrined in a dedicated chapter of the French Constitution. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre (New Caledonia), Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of Pines (New Caledonia), Isle of Pines, and a few remote islets. The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea. French people, especially locals, call Grande Terre , a nickname also used more generally for the entire New Caledonia. Kanak people#Agitation for independence, Pro-independence Kanak parties use the name (''pron.'' ) to refer to New Caledonia, a term coined in the 1980s from the ethnic name of the indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruceomycetaceae
Bruceomycetaceae is a small family of fungi in the order Lecanorales. It contains two genera, each of which contains a single species. Taxonomy The family was circumscribed by lichenologists Jouko Rikkinen and Alexander Roland Schmidt in 2016 to contain the type genus, '' Bruceomyces'', and the genus '' Resinogalea''. Both genera are monotypic–containing a single species. ''Bruceomyces castoris'' was originally described by Rikkinen in 2003 as ''Brucea castoris'', but was transferred to the newly circumscribed ''Bruceomyces'' in 2012 after it was discovered that ''Brucea'' was a junior homonym of a plant genus. The genus name ''Bruceomyces'' honours American lichenologist Bruce McCune. ''Resinogalea humboldtensis'' was described as a species new to science in 2016. The authors placed ''Bruceomyces'' and ''Resinogalea'' in the same family due to their similar physical characteristics, and their similar substrate and habitat ecology. Their dissimilarity in spore structure was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araucaria Araucana
''Araucaria araucana'', commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, pewen, pehuen pine or piñonero, is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Araucariaceae and growing to a trunk diameter of and a height of . It is native to central and southern Chile and western Argentina. It is the hardiest species in the conifer genus ''Araucaria''. Because of the prevalence of similar species in ancient prehistory, it is sometimes called an animate living fossil, fossil. It is also the list of national trees, official tree of Chile and of the neighboring Argentine province of Neuquén. The IUCN changed its conservation status to Endangered species, Endangered in 2013 as logging, forest fires, and grazing caused its population to dwindle. Description The leaf, leaves are thick, tough, and scale-like, triangular, long, broad at the base, and with sharp edges and tips. According to the scientist Christopher Lusk, the leaves have an average lifespan of 24 years and so c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
