Heteroplacidium compactum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Heteroplacidium
Species:
H. compactum
Binomial name
Heteroplacidium compactum
Synonyms[1]
List
  • Catapyrenium compactum (A.Massal.) R.Sant. (1984)
  • Dermatocarpon compactum (A.Massal.) Lettau (1912)
  • Endocarpon compactum (A.Massal.) Nyl. (1858)
  • Endopyrenium compactum (A.Massal.) Körb. (1863)
  • Placidium compactum A.Massal. (1856)
  • Placocarpus compactus (A.Massal.) Trevis. (1860)
  • Rhodocarpon compactum (A.Massal.) Lönnr. (1858)
  • Verrucaria compacta (A.Massal.) Jatta (1900)

Heteroplacidium compactum is a species of areolate, crustose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution. It is a lichenicolous lichen, growing as a facultative parasite on other lichens, typically on non-calcareous rock. It has rod-shaped (bacilliform) conidia measuring 5–7 μm long, and ascospores that are 11–18 by 8–10 μm.[2] Heteroplacidium zamenhofianum is a closely related species distinguished by having perithecia situated in the algal layer, and smaller ascospores (14–16 by 6–7 μm) with a more narrow ellipsoid shape.[3]

The lichen was originally described in 1857 by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo as Placidium compactum. After having been shuffled to various genera in its taxonomic history,[1] it was transferred to Heteroplacidium in 2008 following molecular phylogenetic analysis of that genus.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Synonymy. Current Name: Heteroplacidium compactum (A. Massal.) Gueidan & Cl. Roux, Bull. Inf. Ass. Franç. Lichén. 33(1): 25 (2008)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  2. ↑ Prieto, María; AraGgón, 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.
  3. ↑ Urbanavichus, Gennadii; Urbanavichene, Irina (2013). "New records of pyrenocarpous lichens from the NW Caucasus (Russia)". Herzogia. 26 (1): 123–129. doi:10.13158/heia.26.1.2013.123.
  4. ↑ Roux, C. (2008). "Likenoj de Okcidenta Europo. Suplemento 4a : eltirajoj 2 (extraits 2). Korektendoj (errata)". Bulletin d'informations de l'Association française de lichénologie. 33 (1): 25.


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