Biology:Loxospora

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Loxospora
Loxospora ochrophaea - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
Loxospora ochrophaea
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Sarrameanales
Family: Sarrameanaceae
Genus: Loxospora
A.Massal. (1852)
Type species
Loxospora elatina
(Ach.) A.Massal. (1852)

Loxospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. It has 13 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852, with Loxospora elatina assigned as the type species.[2] This crustose lichen was originally named Lecanora elatina by Erik Acharius in 1810.

Species

  • Loxospora assateaguensis Lendemer (2013)[3] – Assateague Island, USA
  • Loxospora cismonica (Beltr.) Hafellner (1987)
  • Loxospora confusa Lendemer (2013)[3] – mid-Atlantic coastal plain of eastern North America
  • Loxospora cristinae Guzow-Krzem., Łubek, Kubiak & Kukwa (2018)[4] – Poland
  • Loxospora cyamidia (Stirt.) Kantvilas (2000)
  • Loxospora elatina (Ach.) A.Massal. (1852)
  • Loxospora glaucomiza (Nyl.) Kalb & Staiger (1995)
  • Loxospora isidiata Kalb (1992)[5]
  • Loxospora lecanoriformis Lumbsch, A.W.Archer & Elix (2007)[6] – New South Wales, Australia
  • Loxospora ochrophaea (Tuck.) R.C.Harris (1990)
  • Loxospora septata (Sipman & Aptroot) Kantvilas (2000)
  • Loxospora solenospora (Müll.Arg.) Kantvilas (2000)

Loxospora pustulata (Brodo & W.L.Culb.) Egan (1990) is now known as Lepra pustulata.[7]

References

  1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. 
  2. Massalongo, A.B. (1852) (in it). Ricerche sull'autonomia dei licheni crostosi. Verona: Dalla tipografia di A. Frizierio. p. 137. https://archive.org/details/ricerchesullaut00massgoog/page/n158/mode/2up. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Lendemer, James C. (2013). "Two new sterile species of Loxospora (Sarrameanaceae: lichenized ascomycetes) from the mid-Atlantic coastal olain". Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science 129 (3): 71–81. doi:10.7572/2167-5880-129.3.71. 
  4. Guzow-Krzemińska, Beata; Łubek, Anna; Kubiak, Dariusz; Ossowska, Emilia; Kukwa, Martin (2018). "Phylogenetic approaches reveal a new sterile lichen in the genus Loxospora (Sarrameanales, Ascomycota) in Poland". Phytotaxa 348 (3): 211. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.348.3.4. 
  5. Kalb, K.; Hafellner, J. (1992). "Bemerkenswerte Flechten und lichenicole Pilze von der Insel Madeira" (in de). Herzogia 9 (1–2): 45–102. doi:10.1127/herzogia/9/1992/45. 
  6. Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Archer, Alan W.; Elix, John A. (2007). "A new species of Loxospora (lichenized Ascomycota: Sarrameanaceae) from Australia". The Lichenologist 39 (6): 509–517. doi:10.1017/S0024282907007153. 
  7. Lendemer, James C.; Harris, Richard C. (2017). "Nomenclatural changes for North American members of the Variolaria-group necessitated by the recognition of Lepra (Pertusariales)". The Bryologist 120 (2): 183–190. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.2.183. 

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