Caloplaca vainioi

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Caloplaca vainioi
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Caloplaca
Species:
C. vainioi
Binomial name
Caloplaca vainioi
Hafellner & Poelt (1979)

Caloplaca vainioi is a species of crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It is based on the name Placodium brebissonii var. microspora, collected by Friedrich Welwitsch in Angola and described by Edvard August Vainio in 1901. [1] In 1979, lichenologists Josef Hafellner and Josef Poelt renamed this taxon to Caloplaca vainioi. [2] Thorsten Lumbsch and colleagues indicated that this species is the same as Caloplaca cateileoides , and proposed placing the two in synonymy. [3] However, Clifford Wetmore questioned the synonymy of these species, noting that their lichen spot tests and hymenium colour were different, and suggested that "further collections and study are necessary". [4]

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References

  1. Hiern, William Philip (1901). Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853–61. Vol. 2. pp. 261–565 (see p. 408).
  2. Hafellner, J.; Poelt, J. (1979). "Die Arten der Gattung Caloplaca mit pluriloculären Sporen (Meroplacis, Triophthalmidium, Xanthocarpia)". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory (in German). 46: 1–41.
  3. Lumbsch, H.; Plümper, R.; Guderly, R.; Feife, G. (1997). "The corticolous species of Lecanora sensu stricto with pruinose apothecial disks". Symbolae Botanicae Upsaliensis. 32 (1): 131–161.
  4. Wetmore, Clifford (2007). "Notes on Caloplaca cerina (Teloschistaceae) in North and Central America". The Bryologist. 110 (4): 798–807. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[798:NOCCTI]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR   20110908.