Biology:Microcalicium

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Microcalicium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.[1] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Microcaliciaceae. These taxa were circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1927, with Microcalicium disseminatum assigned as the type species.[2]

Description

Species of Microcalicium have a mazaediate ascomata (an irregularly spherical fruiting body in which ascus walls break down to leave a dry, loose, amorphous, powdery, often dark, mass of spores together with disintegrating asci and paraphyses). Their asci are ellipsoid in shape and non-amyloid.[3]

Species

As of May 2024, Species Fungorum accepts the following five species in the genus Microcalicium:[4]

  • Microcalicium ahlneri Tibell (1978)[5]
  • Microcalicium arenarium (Hampe ex A.Massal.) Tibell (1978)[6]
  • Microcalicium conversum Tibell (1978)[5]
  • Microcalicium disseminatum (Ach.) Vain. (1927)[2]
  • Microcalicium loraasii Holien & Frisch (2022)[6]

References

  1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; S, 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. 2.0 2.1 Vainio, Edvard August (1927). "Lichenographia Fennica III. Coniocarpaceae". Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 57 (1): 77. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/15818/1927ActasocFFF571.pdf?sequence=1. 
  3. Jaklitsch, Walter; Baral, Hans-Otto; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2016). Syllabus of Plant Families: Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. 1/2 (13 ed.). Berlin Stuttgart: Gebr. Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Borntraeger Science Publishers. p. 148. ISBN 978-3-443-01089-8. OCLC 429208213. 
  4. Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Microcalicium". Catalog of Life Version 2024-04-26. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5RJF. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Tibell, L. (1978). "The genus Microcalicium". Botaniska Notiser 131: 229–246. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 Holien, H.; Frisch, A. (2022). "Microcalicium loraasii, a new calicioid fungus from old-growth boreal forest in Norway". Graphis Scripta 34 (4): 42–50. https://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Graphis/34_4/GS_34_42.pdf. 
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