Haploloma

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Haploloma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: incertae sedis
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Haploloma
Trevis. (1857)
Species:
H. fraudulentum
Binomial name
Haploloma fraudulentum
Trevis. (1857)

Haploloma is a fungal genus of unknown familial and ordinal placement in the class Lecanoromycetes. [1] It contains the single species Haploloma fraudulentum, a lichen.

Taxonomy

Both the genus and its sole species species were introduced to science by the Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1857. He described the genus as follows: "Apothecia scattered, distinct, circular, shaped like a small dish, sessile and attached, bordered by its own carbonaceous cup-shaped margin, parasitising other lichens. The disc is always open, situated on a simple, very black hypothecium . The asci are club-shaped, eight-spored, mixed with paraphyses. The spores are ovoid-ellipsoidal, single-celled, transparent, with a colourless episporiu m and a simple nucleus." [2]

As of 2017, there is no molecular sequence data available for this genus, and it remains poorly known. It is considered to be of uncertain ( incertae sedis ) placement in the order Lecanoromycetes. [3] [4]

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References

  1. "Haploloma". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  2. Trevisan de Saint-Léon, V.B.A. (1857). "Nuovi studj sui Licheni spettanti alle Tribù delle Patellariee, Beomicee e Lecideine" [New studies on lichens belonging to the tribes Patellarieae, Beomiceae, and Lecideine]. Rivista Periodica dei Lavori della Imperiale Regia Academia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova (in Italian). 5: 63–79.
  3. Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 373, 397. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. JSTOR   44250015.
  4. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453 [165]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2.