Poeltiaria

Poeltiaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecideales
Family: Lecideaceae
Genus: Poeltiaria
Hertel (1984)
Type species
Poeltiaria turgescens
(Körb.) Hertel (1984)
Species

P. coppinsiana
P. coromandelica
P. corralensis
P. tasmanica
P. turgescens
P. urbanskyana

Synonyms
  • Notolecidea Hertel (1984) (suggested synonym)

Poeltiaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lecideaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed in 1984 by the lichenologist Hannes Hertel, with Poeltiaria turgescens assigned as the type species. The genus name Poeltiaria honours the German-Austrian lichenologist Josef Poelt (1924–1995).

Hertel originally introduced Notolecidea in 1984 for the single species Notolecidea subcontinua, treating it as a separate genus close to the Porpidiaceae. In their later revision of southern subpolar Lecideaceae, Alan Fryday and Hertel re-examined N. subcontinua and showed that the characters used to separate Notolecidea from Poeltiaria—the reported presence of atranorin in the thallus and algal cells in the basal exciple—are inconsistent and taxonomically unreliable, with thin-layer chromatography revealing either only triterpenes or no detectable substances and algal cells in the exciple not consistently present. Because its anatomy and overall morphology match species already placed in Poeltiaria, they treated Notolecidea as a synonym of Poeltiaria and transferred the type species as Poeltiaria subcontinua. Nevertheless, the genus Notolecidea is still accepted by both the Catalogue of Life and by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Species

As of July 2026, the genus contains six accepted species according to the Catalogue of Life.

The following species are not currently accepted in the Catalogue of Life.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fryday, Alan M.; Hertel, Hannes (2014). "A contribution to the family Lecideaceae s. lat. (Lecanoromycetidae inc. sed., lichenized Ascomycota) in the southern subpolar region; including eight new species and some revised generic circumscriptions". The Lichenologist. 46 (3): 389–412. doi:10.1017/s0024282913000704.
  2. ↑ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:11336/151990.
  3. 1 2 Hertel, H. (1984). "Über saxicole, lecideoide Flechten der Subantarktis" [On saxicolous, lecideoid lichens of the subantarctic region]. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia (in German). 79: 430, 440.
  4. ↑ Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen [Generic eponyms in lichens and lichenicolous fungi]. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 90. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.
  5. ↑ "Notolecidea Hertel". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Notolecidea Hertel". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Poeltiaria Hertel". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "Notolecidea subcontinua (Nyl.) Hertel". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 27 July 2026.