Lobothallia

Lobothallia
Lobothallia sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Ascomycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Megasporaceae
Genus: Lobothallia
(Clauzade & Cl.Roux) Hafellner (1991)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aspicilia subgen. Lobothallia Clauzade & Cl.Roux (1984)
  • Protoplacodium Motyka (1995)

Lobothallia is a genus of lichens in the Megasporaceae family with foliose thalli that become crustose areolate in the center with age, and grow on calcareous to siliceous rocks.[2]:306-7 The crustose part of the body may keep its lower cortex,[2]:306 though not always.[3] Dark brown to black apothecia may be sunken into the surface of the thallus, as indicated in the common name puffed sunken disk lichen.[2]:306 Members grow in 3-5 cm or more radiating lobes (placoidioid).[3] The photobiont is green alga from the genus Trebouxia.[3] The genus is represented in Eurasia, Asia, North Africa, Central America, western North America, and Australia.[3]

Species

References

  1. ↑ "Synonymy: Lobothallia (Clauzade & Cl. Roux) Hafellner". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
  2. 1 2 3 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. 1 2 3 4 Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001,
  4. 1 2 3 Kou XR, Li SX, Ren Q. (2013). "Three new species and one new record of Lobothallia from China". Mycotaxon 123: 241–9. doi:10.5248/123.241.

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