Biology:Calotrichopsis

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Calotrichopsis is a small genus of cyanolichens placed in the family Porocyphaceae. The genus was originally circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1896.[1] A 2024 multilocus study of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and provisionally included Calotrichopsis in that family; earlier references had kept the genus in Lichinaceae. Species are minute, dark-coloured lichens partnered with cyanobacteria and are typically found on rock or soil in open, intermittently wet microhabitats. The family placement is considered tentative pending additional molecular sampling.[2]

Species

  • Calotrichopsis filiformis Henssen (1963)[3]
  • Calotrichopsis granulosa Henssen (1963)[3]
  • Calotrichopsis insignis Vain. (1890)[1]
  • Calotrichopsis rivae Sambo (1937)[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Vainio, E.A. (1890). "Étude sur la classification naturelle et la morphologie des Lichens du Brésil. Pars prima" (in la). Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 7 (1): 1–247 [243]. 
  2. Prieto, M.; Wedin, M.; Schultz, M. (2024). "Phylogeny, evolution and a re-classification of the Lichinomycetes". Studies in Mycology 109: 595–655. doi:10.3114/sim.2024.109.09. PMID 39717657. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Henssen, A. (1963). "Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae" (in de). Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 18 (1): 1–123. 
  4. Cengia Sambo, M. (1937). "Lichenes Africae orientalis italicae. I. I. I licheni dell'Abissinia meridionale e della Somalia" (in it). Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 44: 456–470 [464]. 

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