Amandinea

''Amandinea'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Genetic studies indicates that the genus ''Amandinea'' and ''Buellia'' are the same,Scheidegger, C. 2009. Amandinea Choisy ex Scheid. & H. Mayrhofer (1993). In: C. W. Smith, A. Aptroot, B. J. Coppins, A. Fletcher, O. L. Gilbert, P. W. James and P. A. Wosley (eds.) The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. The British Lichen Society, Natural History Museum Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 142–144 although this is not widely accepted.Amandinea punctata in the Joshua Tree National Park (California, U.S.A.) Map collection: Kerry Knudsen, Kocourková Jana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Ecology, Czech Republic; 2012

Taxonomy

The genus was originally circumscribed by Maurice Choisy in 1950, with '' Amandinea coniops'' assigned as the type species. However, the name was published invalidly because it was not accompanied by a Latin description or diagnosis, a requirement of the nomenclatural rules of the time. Christoph Scheidegger and Helmut Mayrhofer published the genus name validly in 1993.
The generic name honours French Madame Amandine Manière, an acquaintance of Choisy.

Species

, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 94 species of ''Amandinea''.

* '' Amandinea analgifera''
* '' Amandinea antipodensis''
* ''Amandinea augusta''
* ''Amandinea australasica''
* ''Amandinea austroconiops''
* ''Amandinea babingtonii''
* ''Amandinea bittangabeensis''
* ''Amandinea brugierae''
* ''Amandinea brunneola''
* ''Amandinea brussei''
* ''Amandinea cacuminum''
* ''Amandinea clearyi''
* ''Amandinea conglomerata''
* '' Amandinea coniops''
* '' Amandinea conranensis''
* '' Amandinea crassiuscula''
* '' Amandinea decedens''
* '' Amandinea delangei''
* '' Amandinea deminuta''
* '' Amandinea destituta''
* '' Amandinea devilliersiana''
* '' Amandinea diorista''
* '' Amandinea discreta''
* '' Amandinea dudleyensis''
* '' Amandinea efflorescens''
* '' Amandinea endochroa''
* '' Amandinea errata''
* '' Amandinea extenuata''
* '' Amandinea falklandica''
* '' Amandinea feraxioides''
* '' Amandinea fouquieriensis''
* '' Amandinea fuscoatratula''
* '' Amandinea hnatiukii''
* '' Amandinea hypohyalina''
* '' Amandinea hypopallida''
* '' Amandinea hypostictica''
* '' Amandinea incrustans''
* '' Amandinea isabellina''
* '' Amandinea julianeae''
* '' Amandinea langloisii''
* '' Amandinea latemarginata''
* '' Amandinea lecideina''
* '' Amandinea lignicola''
* '' Amandinea litoralis''
* '' Amandinea lobarica''
* '' Amandinea madeirensis'' – Portugal
* '' Amandinea maritima''
* '' Amandinea mediospora''
* '' Amandinea megaspora''
* '' Amandinea melaxanthella''
* '' Amandinea meridionalis''
* '' Amandinea microsticta''
* '' Amandinea montana''
* '' Amandinea mountmeensis''
* '' Amandinea myrticola''
* '' Amandinea nana''
* '' Amandinea natalensis''
* '' Amandinea nebulosa''
* '' Amandinea neoconglomerata''
* ''Amandinea nitrophila''
* '' Amandinea occidentalis''
* '' Amandinea okainensis''
* '' Amandinea oleicola''
* '' Amandinea ornata''
* '' Amandinea otagensis''
* '' Amandinea pelidna''
* '' Amandinea petermannii''
* '' Amandinea pilbarensis''
* '' Amandinea pillagaensis''
* '' Amandinea polyspora''
* '' Amandinea polyxanthonica''
* '' Amandinea porulosa''
* '' Amandinea prospersa''
* '' Amandinea prothallinata''
* '' Amandinea pseudomultispora''
* '' Amandinea puertomonttensis''
* ''Amandinea punctata''
* '' Amandinea rangitatensis''
* '' Amandinea ropinii''
* '' Amandinea santantaoensis''
* '' Amandinea skottsbergii''
* '' Amandinea stajsicii''
* '' Amandinea subbadioatra''
* '' Amandinea subcervina''
* '' Amandinea subduplicata''
* '' Amandinea submontana''
* '' Amandinea subplicata''
* '' Amandinea trassii''
* '' Amandinea tristiuscula''
* '' Amandinea turgescens''
* '' Amandinea variabilis''
* '' Amandinea vitellina''
* '' Amandinea wagoorooensis''
* '' Amandinea windmillensis''
* '' Amandinea xylographella''

Gallery

Image:Amandinea polyspora.jpg, '' Amandinea polyspora''
Image:Amandinea punctata-3.jpg, Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium from ''A. punctata'' taken through a compound microscope, x400. (The exciple is uniformly pigmented dark brown; the epihymenium is brown; the hypothecium is brown black.)
Image:Amandinea polyspora-2.jpg, Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium of ''A. polyspora'' through a compound microscope (x1000) showing 25+ spores per ascus
Image:Amandinea punctata-4.jpg, Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium of ''A. punctata'' taken through a compound microscope (x1000), showing 8 brown 1-septate spores per ascus.

References

Lichen genera
Caliciales genera
Taxa described in 1950
Taxa named by Maurice Choisy

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