Xanthocarpia
Xanthocarpia crenulatella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Xanthocarpia
A.Massal. & De Not. (1853)
Type species
Xanthocarpia ochracea
(Schaer.) A.Massal. & De Not. (1853)

Xanthocarpia is a genus of mostly crustose lichens in the family Teloschistaceae.[1] It has 12 species with a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally circumscribed in 1859 by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo and Giuseppe De Notaris, with Xanthocarpia ochracea as the type species. This species has tetralocular ascospores (i.e. divided into 4 chambers).[2]

Description

Xanthocarpia has a thallus that is either crust-like (crustose) or like a shield or plate attached on the lower surface at a single central point (peltate). In some cases, the thallus is absent; in all cases, a cortex is absent. The lichen contains anthraquinones compounds. Xanthocarpia species often have apothecia, which are coloured yellow to orange. These apothecia are zeorine, meaning that the proper exciple (the ring-shaped layer surrounding the hymenium) is enclosed in the thalline exciple. Pycnidia can be present or absent; the conidia have a bacilliform to narrowly ellipsoid shape.[2]

Species

Most Flavoplaca species occur in the Northern Hemisphere. Several are found in southeastern Europe, with a collective distribution extending from the Mediterranean to the Arctic.[2] As of April 2021, Species Fungorum accepts 12 species of Xanthocarpia:[3]

Xanthocarpia feracissima
  • Xanthocarpia aquensis (Houmeau & Cl.Roux) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia borysthenica (Khodos. & S.Y.Kondr.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia crenulatella (Nyl.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia diffusa (Vondrák & Llimona) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia epigaea (Søchting, Huneck & Etayo) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia erichansenii (S.Y.Kondr., A.Thell, Kärnefelt & Elix) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia feracissima (H.Magn.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia ferrarii (Bagl.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia interfulgens (Nyl.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia jerramungupensis (S.Y.Kondr., Kärnefelt & Elix) S.Y.Kondr., Kärnefelt, A.Thell, Elix, Jung Kim, A.S.Kondr. & Hur (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia marmorata (Bagl.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
  • Xanthocarpia tominii (Savicz) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)

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. hdl:11336/151990.
  2. 1 2 3 Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
  3. ↑ Species Fungorum. "Xanthocarpia". Catalog of Life. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
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