Staurothele

Staurothele
Staurothele elenkinii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Staurothele
Norman (1852)
Type species
Staurothele clopima
(Wahlenb.) Th.Fr. (1852)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Goidanichia Tomas. & Cif. (1952)
  • Goidanichiomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)
  • Paraphysorma A.Massal. (1852)
  • Polyblastiomyces E.A.Thomas (1939)
  • Sphaeromphale A.Massal. (1854)
  • Stigmatomma Körb. (1855)

Staurothele is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has about 40 species. When the fungus is part of a lichen, the genus of lichen is commonly called rock pimples.: 352 

Species

References

  1. ↑ 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. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
  2. ↑ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. ↑ Harada, H.; Wang, L.S. (2006). "Taxonomic study on the freshwater species of Verrucariaceae (lichenized Ascomycota) of Yunnan, China (2). Genus Staurothele". Lichenology. 5 (1): 13–22.
  4. ↑ Morse, Caleb A.; Ladd, Douglas (2019). "Staurothele nemorum sp. nov. (Ascomycota: Verrucariaceae), with a revised key to North American Staurothele s. lat.". The Lichenologist. 51 (6): 495–506. doi:10.1017/s0024282919000410. S2CID 213294478.
  5. ↑ Thomson, John W. (1991). "The lichen genus Staurothele in North America". The Bryologist. 94 (4): 351–367. doi:10.2307/3243824. JSTOR 3243824.