Biology:Catapyrenium boccanum
| Catapyrenium boccanum | |
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| Growing in a calcareous rock depression in Planalto das Cezaredas, Portugal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Family: | Verrucariaceae |
| Genus: | Catapyrenium |
| Species: | C. boccanum
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| Binomial name | |
| Catapyrenium boccanum (Servít) Breuss (1990)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Catapyrenium boccanum is a species of squamulose (scaley), rock-dwelling lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It grows on mortar or on calcareous rock. Its squamules are up to 4 mm wide, pale to dark brown with black margins and a black underside. Ascospores measure 11–15 by 5–8 μm.[3] Because of its combination of squamulose thallus, simple ascospores (without any septa), and lack of algae in the hymenium, this species is a "catapyrenioid" lichen, of which more than 80 exist in the Verrucariaceae.[4]
The lichen was first formally described as a new species in 1955 by Czech lichenologist Miroslav Servít.[5] Othmar Breuss transferred it to Catapyrenium in 1990 as part of a revision of that genus.[6] In Europe, the lichen has a largely Mediterranean distribution, although scattered records are known from western and southern Europe.[3] It is also found in Turkey.[7]
References
- ↑ Breuss, O. (1996). "Ein verfeinertes Gliederungskonzept für Catapyrenium (lichenisierte Ascomyceten, Verrucariaceae)" (in de). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 98 (Suppl.): 35–50 [38].
- ↑ "Synonymy. Current Name: Catapyrenium boccanum (Servít) Breuss, Stapfia 23: 77 (1990)". Species Fungorum. http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=125619.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Prieto, María; Aragón, Gregorio; Martínez, Isabel (2010). "The genus Catapyrenium s. lat. (Verrucariaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands". The Lichenologist 42 (6): 637–684. doi:10.1017/s0024282910000319.
- ↑ Breuss, Othmar (2010). "An updated world-wide key to the catapyrenioid lichens (Verrucariaceae)". Herzogia 23 (2): 205–216. doi:10.13158/heia.23.2.2010.205.
- ↑ Servít, M. (1955). "Lichenes novi" (in cs). Rozpravy Ceskoslovenské Akademie Ved 65 (3): 1–43 [23].
- ↑ Breuss, O. (1990) (in de). Die Flechtengattung Catapyrenium (Verrucariaceae). Stapfia. 23. p. 77. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/STAPFIA_0023_0001-0153.pdf.
- ↑ Halici, Mehmet Gökhan; Aksoy, Ahmet (2009). "Lichenised and lichenicolous fungi of Aladağlar National Park (Niğde, Kayseri and Adana Provinces) in Turkey". Turkish Journal of Botany 33: 169–189. doi:10.3906/bot-0810-14. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268341722.
Wikidata ☰ Q10443775 entry
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