Pyrenula subumbilicata

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Pyrenula subumbilicata
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Pyrenula subumbilicata growing on Dracophyllum arboreum in the Chatham Islands
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Pyrenulales
Family: Pyrenulaceae
Genus: Pyrenula
Species:
P. subumbilicata
Binomial name
Pyrenula subumbilicata
Synonyms [1]
Synonymy
  • Parmentaria subumbilicata(C.Knight) Müll.Arg.
  • Pyrenula immersaMüll.Arg.
  • Trypethelium subumbilicatumC.Knight

Pyrenula subumbilicata is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. Previously thought to be endemic to Australia, it was found in New Zealand in 2014.

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Description

Pyrenula subumbilicata has a yellow to olive green thallus without a pseudocyphellae, and black ascomata often found in groups on two to six, with fused ostioles. [2] It has irregularly submuriform ascospores with simple end locules. [3]

Taxonomy

The lichen was formally described as a new species by New Zealand doctor Charles Knight in 1886, who used the name Trypethelium subumbilicatum. [1] The species was recombined in 2007 by André Aptroot, who placed it in the genus Pyrenula . [3]

Distribution and habitat

The species is found in lowland rainforests in Queensland,Australia, and was first recognised in New Zealand in 2014. [2] In New Zealand, the species typically grows on Knightia excelsa , Pseudopanax crassifolius and Myrsine australis , and has been found in regenerating coastal forest in the Waitākere Ranges and Okura Bush Scenic Reserve in the Auckland Region, [2] and on the Chatham Islands growing on Dracophyllum arboreum . [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Pyrenula subumbilicata (C.Knight) Aptroot". Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Marshall, Andrew J.; Blanchon, Dan J.; Aptroot, André; de Lange, Peter J. (16 September 2019). "Five new records of Pyrenula (Pyrenulaceae) for New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 58 (1): 48–61. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2019.1662816. ISSN   0028-825X. Wikidata   Q134497505.
  3. 1 2 Aptroot, André (2007). "New species, combinations, lectotypifications and synonyms in Australian Pyrenulaceae" (PDF). Australasian Lichenology. 60: 34–41. ISSN   1328-4401. Wikidata   Q135312137.
  4. ↑ de Lange, Peter (16 April 2023). "Pyrenula subumbilicata". iNaturalist . Retrieved 14 July 2025.
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