Calotrichopsis
| Calotrichopsis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lichinomycetes |
| Order: | Lichinales |
| Family: | Porocyphaceae |
| Genus: | Calotrichopsis Vain. (1890) |
| Type species | |
| Calotrichopsis insignis Vain. (1890)
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| Species | |
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C. filiformis | |
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
- ^ a b Vainio, E.A. (1890). "Étude sur la classification naturelle et la morphologie des Lichens du Brésil. Pars prima" [Study on the natural classification and morphology of the lichens of Brazil. Part one]. Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 7 (1): 1–247 [243].
- ^ 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. PMC 11663425. PMID 39717657.
- ^ a b Henssen, A. (1963). "Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae" [A revision of the lichen families Lichinaceae and Ephebaceae]. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses (in German). 18 (1): 1–123.
- ^ Cengia Sambo, M. (1937). "Lichenes Africae orientalis italicae. I. I. I licheni dell'Abissinia meridionale e della Somalia" [Lichens of Italian East Africa. I. The lichens of southern Abyssinia and Somalia]. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 44: 456–470 [464].