Ampliotrema

Ampliotrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Graphidaceae
Genus:	Ampliotrema Kalb ex Kalb (2006)
Type species
Ampliotrema amplius (Nyl.) Kalb ex Kalb (2006)
Synonyms
AmpliotremaKalb (2004)

Ampliotrema is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. ^[1] The genus was originally described invalidly in 2004, ^[2] and validly two years later. ^[3]

Species

As of August 2025 ^[update] , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 12 species of Ampliotrema. ^[1]

• Ampliotrema amplius (Nyl.) Kalb (2006)
• Ampliotrema auratum (Tuck.) Kalb (2006)
• Ampliotrema cocosense Lücking & Chaves (2011) ^[4]
• Ampliotrema dactylizum (Hale) Sipman, Lücking & Grube (2012)
• Ampliotrema discolor (Ach.) Kalb (2006)
• Ampliotrema lepadinoides (Leight.) Kalb (2006)
• Ampliotrema megalostoma (Müll.Arg.) M.Cáceres & Lücking (2012)
• Ampliotrema palaeoamplius (Aptroot & Sipman) Kalb (2006)
• Ampliotrema panamense (Hale) Sipman & Lücking (2012)
• Ampliotrema rimosum (Hale) Merc.-Díaz, Lücking & Parnmen (2014)
• Ampliotrema sanguineum Lücking (2015) ^[5]
• Ampliotrema sorediatum Rivas Plata & Lücking (2012) ^[6]
• Ampliotrema subglobosum Poengs. & Lumbsch (2024) ^[7] – Thailand

References

1. "Ampliotrema". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
2. Kalb, K. (2004). "New or otherwise interesting lichens. II". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 88: 301–329.
3. Frisch, A. (2006). "The lichen family Thelotremataceae in Africa". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 92: 81.
4. Lumbsch, H.T.; Ahti, T.; Altermann, S.; De Paz, G.A.; Aptroot, A.; Arup, U.; et al. (2011). "One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 9–11. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1.
5. Lücking, R. (2015). "Thelotremoid Graphidaceae from the NYBG herbarium: New species, range extensions, and a forgotten lichen". Opuscula Philolichenum. 14: 1–57 [2].
6. Rivas Plata, Eimy; Lücking, Robert (2013). "High diversity of Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) in Amazonian Perú". Fungal Diversity. 58 (1): 13–32. doi:10.1007/s13225-012-0172-y.
7. Poengsungnoen, Vasun; Nirongbut, Phimpha; Buaruang, Kawinnat; Boonpragob, Kansri; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Polyiam, Wetchasart (2024). "Three new species of thelotremoid lichens (lichenized Ascomycota : Ostropales ) with 15 new records of lichenized fungi from Thailand and a worldwide key to species of the genus Ampliotrema". The Lichenologist. 56 (2–3): 73–82. doi:10.1017/S0024282924000094.