Chaenotheca

Chaenotheca
Chaenotheca chlorella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Subclass: Lecanoromycetidae
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Coniocybaceae
Genus: Chaenotheca
(Th. Fr.) Th. Fr.
Type species
Chaenotheca chrysocephala
(Turner ex Ach.) Th. Fr.
Species

North American species:
C. brachypoda
C. brunneola
C. chlorella
C. chrysocephala
C. cinerea
C. ferruginea
C. floridana
C. furfuracea
C. gracilenta
C. gracillima
C. hispidula
C. hygrophila
C. laevigata
C. nitidula
C. olivaceorufa
C. phaeocephala
C. servitii
C. sphaerocephala
C. stemonea
C. subroscida
C. trichialis
C. xyloxena

Chaenotheca is a genus of lichens within the family Coniocybaceae.[1] The sexual reproduction structures are a mass of loose ascospores that are enclosed by a cup shaped exciple sitting on top of a tiny stalk, having the appearance of a dressmaker's pin (called a mazaedium), hence the common name pin lichen.[2]:15 Genus members are also commonly called needle lichens.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58.
  2. ↑ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. ↑ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search

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