Lichinella

Lichinella
Lichinella cribellifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lichinomycetes
Order:	Lichinales
Family:	Lichinellaceae
Genus:	Lichinella Nyl. (1873)
Type species
Lichinella stipatula Nyl. (1872)
Synonyms [1]
Gonohymenia J.Steiner (1902) RechingeriaServít (1931)

Lichinella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lichinellaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed in 1872 by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander. ^[2]

In a 2024 multilocus molecular phylogenetics-informed re-classification of the Lichinomycetes, Lichinella was placed in the newly erected family Lichinellaceae together with Edwardiella , Gonotichia and Synalissina . The authors treat Lichinella as a medium-sized genus of almost 30 species, and diagnose the family by thallinocarpous ascomata (fruiting bodies developing within the thallus) and a Lichinella-type ascus. Several names formerly placed in segregate genera have been combined into Lichinella (e.g. transfers from Gonohymenia and Thallinocarpon ), reflecting the new phylogeny. ^[3]

Species

• Lichinella algerica (J.Steiner) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella americana Henssen (1969)
• Lichinella applanata Henssen (1963)
• Lichinella cribellifera (Nyl.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella flexa Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986) ^[4]
• Lichinella granulosa M.Schultz (2005) ^[5]
• Lichinella heppii (Müll.Arg.) P.Clerc & Cl.Roux (2004)
• Lichinella hondoana (Zahlbr.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella inflata (Henssen) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella intermedia Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986) ^[4]
• Lichinella iodopulchra (Couderc ex Croz.) P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella lojkana Hue (1898)
• Lichinella mauritanica (O.L.Lange) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella melamphylla (Tuck.) Essl. (1995)
• Lichinella minnesotensis (Fink) Essl. (1995)
• Lichinella myriospora (Zahlbr.) P.P.Moreno & Egea ex M.Schultz (2005)
• Lichinella polyspora (H.Magn.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella robusta Henssen (1963)
• Lichinella robustoides Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986) ^[4]
• Lichinella sinaica (Galun & Marton) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
• Lichinella stipatula Nyl. (1872)
• Lichinella undulata (Henssen) M.Schultz & van den Boom (2007)

References

1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Lichinella Nyl., Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie, sér. 2 6(2): 301 (1872)". MycoBank. Species Fungorum . Retrieved 3 November 2022.
2. Nylander, W. (1873). "Observata lichenologica in Pyrenaeis orientalibus". Flora (Regensburg) (in Latin). 56: 193–208.
3. Prieto, M.; Wedin, M.; Schultz, M. (2024). "Phylogeny, evolution and a re-classification of the Lichinomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 109: 595–655. doi:10.3114/sim.2024.109.09. PMC   11663425 . PMID   39717657.
4. Henssen, Aino; Büdel, Burkhard; III, Thomas H. Nash; Budel, Burkhard (1985). "Three new species of Lichinella described from Mexico". The Bryologist. 88 (4): 285–292. doi:10.2307/3242664. JSTOR   3242664.
5. Schultz, Matthias (2005). "An overview of Lichinella in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, and the new species Lichinella granulosa". The Bryologist. 108 (4): 567–590. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2005)108[0567:aoolit]2.0.co;2.