Biology:Ionaspis aptrootii
| Ionaspis aptrootii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Baeomycetales |
| Family: | Hymeneliaceae |
| Genus: | Ionaspis |
| Species: | I. aptrootii
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| Binomial name | |
| Ionaspis aptrootii Poengs. & Lumbsch (2021)
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| Holotype: Varirata, New Guinea[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Ionaspis aptrootii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Hymeneliaceae.[3] It occurs in New Guinea and Thailand.
Taxonomy
Ionaspis aptrootii is a replacement name for the taxon name Ionaspis tropica, which was published by the Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot in 1997.[1] That name was not validly published, as it was predated by another taxon of the same name, described by Lincoln Ware Riddle in 1920.[2] The new species epithet honours Aptroot, who originally described the species.[4] The type specimen was collected by Aptroot in Varirata National Park, Papua New Guinea, where he found it growing on conglomerate rock at an elevation of 700 m (2,300 ft).[1] It has since been recorded in Thailand.[5]
Description
Ionaspis aptrootii has a smooth, cream-white thallus up to 1 mm thick and encircled with a black prothallus. It has angular to star-shaped ([[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]]), dark reddish-brown apothecia (fruiting bodies) that are immersed in the thallus, and measure 0.2–0.4 mm wide. Its [[Glossary of lichen terms#{{biology:{1}}}|{{Biology:{1}}}]], which number eight per ascus, are hyaline and ellipsoid, do not have septa, and measure 11–14 by 4–5 μm. The stellate, dark reddish-brown apothecia distinguish this species from others in the genus Ionaspis.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Aptroot, André; Diederich, Paul; Sérusiaux, Emmanuel; Sipman, Harrie J.M. (1997). Lichens and lichenicolous fungi from New Guinea. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 64. Berlin/Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 129. ISBN 978-3-443-58043-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ionaspis tropica Aptroot, in Aptroot, Diederich, Sérusiaux & Sipman, Biblthca Lichenol. 64: 73 (1997)". Index Fungorum. https://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=437913.
- ↑ "Ionaspis aptrootii Poengs. & Lumbsch". Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/B33QN.
- ↑ Poengsungnoen, V.; Buaruang, K.; Boonpragob, K.; Lumbsch, H.T. (2021). "A key to the identification of the genera of lichenized fungi occurring in Thailand". Mycotaxon 136 (2): 409–444 [427]. doi:10.5248/136.409.
- ↑ Boonpragob, K.; Homchantara, N.; Coppins, B.J.; McCarthy, P.M.; Wolseley, P.A. (1998). "An introduction to the lichen flora of Khao Yai National Park, Thailand". Botanical Journal of Scotland 50 (2): 209–219. doi:10.1080/03746609808684918.
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