Biology:Acantholichen

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Short description: Genus of lichens


Acantholichen
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Acantholichen
P.M.Jørg. (1998)
Type species
Acantholichen pannarioides
P.M.Jørg. (1998)
Species

A. albomarginatus
A. campestris
A. galapagoensis
A. pannarioides
A. variabilis

Acantholichen is a fungal genus in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen to contain the type, and at that time, only species, the basidiolichen Acantholichen pannarioides, discovered originally in Costa Rica in 1998.[2] This species has a bluish, gelatinous thallus, and a fine, white powdery bloom covering the hairy upper surface; this surface is said to resemble "an unshaven chin".[2] Five additional species, all basidiolichens, were added to the genus in 2016 following an in-depth analysis of specimens collected from the Galápagos, Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia.[3]

Species

See also

References

  1. "Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales)". Fungal Diversity 64 (1): 1–99. 2014. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0. https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/136089/1/1205754_Molecular%20phylogeny.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jørgensen, P.M. (1998). "Acantholichen pannarioides, a new basidiolichen from South America". The Bryologist 101 (3): 444–447. doi:10.2307/3244185. 
  3. Dal-Forno, Manuela; Lücking, Robert; Bungartz, Frank; Yánez-Ayabaca, Alba; Marcelli, Marcelo P.; Spielmann, Adriano A.; Coca, Luis Fernando; Chaves, José Luis et al. (2016). "From one to six: unrecognized species diversity in the genus Acantholichen (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae)". Mycologia 108 (1): 38–55. doi:10.3852/15-060. PMID 26577612. 

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