Lepra (lichen)

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Lepra
Pertusaria albescens Maurepas.jpg
Lepra albescens
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Pertusariaceae
Genus: Lepra
Scop. (1777)
Type species
Lepra albescens
(Huds.) Hafellner (2016)
Synonyms [1]
List
  • Variolaria Pers. (1791)
  • LeproncusVentenat (1799)
  • Isidium(Ach.) Ach. (1803)
  • Pertusaria sect. Lecanorastrum Müll.Arg. (1884)
  • Pertusaria subg. Monomurata Archer (1993)
  • Pertusaria sect. DigitataeArcher (1993)
  • Marfloraea S.Y.Kondr., L.Lökös & Hur (2015)

Lepra is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Pertusariaceae. Although the genus was created in 1777, it was not regularly used until it was resurrected in 2016 following molecular phylogenetic analyses. It has more than a hundred species, most of which were previously classified in genus Pertusaria .

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Taxonomy

The genus was originally circumscribed by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777. [2] Martyn Dibben designated Lichen albescens (= Lepra albescens ) as a neotype for the genus in 1980. [3] In 2015, Kondratyuk and colleagues proposed the new genus Marfloraea to contain 13 members of the Variola group (one of four major clades identified in Pertusaria in the broad sense), with Marfloraea amara (= Lepra amara ) selected as the type. [4] The proposed genus was rejected a year later when Josef Hafellner and Ayşen Türk explained that the new genus name was superfluous because older available names existed that should have instead been used. [5] Consequently, the genus Lepra was reinstated to contain species formerly placed in the Pertusaria albescens species group. [1]

Description

Genus Lepra contains crustose lichens with the following features: disc-like ascomata; a hymenial gel that is weakly amyloid to non-amyloid; asci that are strongly amyloid but lack clear amyloid structures at their tips; and asci containing one or two single-layered, thin-walled ascospores. [1]

Species

Lepra amara Pertusaria amara (Ach.) Nyl 315691.jpg
Lepra amara
Lepra commutata Pertusaria commutata - Flickr - pellaea (1).jpg
Lepra commutata
Lepra excludens Pertusaria excludens Raz.jpg
Lepra excludens
Lepra trachythallina Pertusaria trachythallina - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
Lepra trachythallina
Lepra waghornei Pertusaria waghornei - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
Lepra waghornei

As of September 2025, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 104 species of Lepra: [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Wei, X.L.; Schmitt, I.; Hodkinson, B.P.; Flakus, A.; Kukwa, M.; Divakar, P.K.; Kirika, P.M.; Otte, J.; Meiser, A.; Lumbsch, H.T. (2017). "Circumscription of the genus Lepra, a recently resurrected genus to accommodate the "Variolaria"-group of Pertusaria sensu lato (Pertusariales, Ascomycota)". PLOS ONE. 12 (7) e0180284. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1280284W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180284 . PMC   5507398 . PMID   28700682.
  2. ↑ Scopoli, Gioanni Antonio (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem sistens genera lapidum, plantarum, et animalium: hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae (in Latin). Prague: Apud Wolfgangum Gerle. p. 61.
  3. ↑ Dibben, Martyn J. (1980). The Chemosystematics of the Lichen Genus Pertusaria in North America North of Mexico. Publications in Biology and Geology. Vol. 5. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum. ISBN   978-0-89326-036-1.
  4. ↑ Kondratyuk, Sergii Y.; Lőkös, László; Kim, Jung A.; Kondratiuk, Anna S.; Jeong, Min-Hye; Jang, Seol Hwa; Oh, Soon-Ok; Hur, Jae-Seoun (2015). "New members of the Pertusariales (Ascomycota) proved by combined phylogenetic analysis" (PDF). Studia Botanica Hungarica. 46 (2): 95–110. doi:10.17110/studbot.2015.46.2.95.
  5. ↑ Hafellner, J.; Türk, R. (2016). "Die lichenisierten Pilze Österreichs –Eine neue Checkliste der bisher nachgewiesenen Taxa mit Angaben zu Verbreitung und Substratökologie" (PDF). Stapfia. 104 (1): 1–216.
  6. ↑ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Lepra". Catalog of Life Version 2021-12-18. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Fryday, A.M. (2019). "Eleven new species of crustose lichenized fungi from the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)". The Lichenologist. 51 (3): 235–267. Bibcode:2019ThLic..51..235F. doi:10.1017/S0024282919000185.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Archer, A.W.; Elix, J.A. (2020). "Six new species, a new variety, a new report and two new records in the Australian Pertusariaceae (Pertusariales, lichenized Ascomycota)" (PDF). Australasian Lichenology. 86: 14–29.
  9. ↑ Aptroot, A.; Spielmann, A.A.; Gumboski, E.L. (2021). "New lichen species and records from Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil" (PDF). Archive for Lichenology. 23: 1–18.
  10. ↑ Guzow-Krzemińska, B.; Flakus, A.; Kosecka, M.; Jabłońska, A.; Rodriguez-Flakus, P.; Kukwa, M. (2019). "New species and records of lichens from Bolivia". Phytotaxa. 397 (4): 257–279. Bibcode:2019Phytx.397..257G. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.397.4.1 .
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