Muellerella_lichenicola

<i>Muellerella lichenicola</i>

Muellerella lichenicola

Species of fungus

Muellerella lichenicola is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Verrucariaceae. It was first formally described as a new species in 1826 by Søren Christian Sommerfelt, as Sphaeria lichenicola. David Leslie Hawksworth transferred it to the genus Muellerella in 1979.[1]

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It has been reported growing on Caloplaca aurantia, Caloplaca saxicola and Physcia aipolia in Sicily,[2] and on an unidentified crustose lichen in Iceland.[3] In Mongolia, it has been reported growing on the thallus of a Biatora-lichen at 2,800 m (9,200 ft) elevation in the Bulgan district and on Aspicilia at 1,850 m (6,070 ft) elevation in the Altai district.[4] In Victoria Land, Antarctica, it has been reported from multiple hosts, including members of the Teloschistaceae and Physciaceae.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Hawksworth, D.L. (1979). "Studies in the genus Endococcus (Ascomycotina, Dothideales)". Botaniska Notiser. 132: 283–290.
  2. [2]
    Brackel, Wolfgang von (2008). "Phoma ficuzzae sp. nov. and some other lichenicolous fungi from Sicily, Italy". Sauteria. 15: 103–120.
  3. [3]
    Brackel, Wolfgang von (2011). "Lichenopeltella rangiferinae sp. nov. and some other lichenicolous fungi from Iceland" (PDF). Acta Botanica Islandica. 15: 51–60.
  4. [4]
    Zhurbenko, Michail P.; Enkhtuya, Ochirbat; Javkhlan, Samiya (2020). "Additions to the checklist of lichenicolous fungi of Mongolia". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 57: 9–20. doi:10.12697/fce.2020.57.03. S2CID 240763703.
  5. [5]
    Alstrup, V.; Olech, M.; Wietrzyk-Pelka, P.; Wegrzyn, M. H. (2018). "The lichenicolous fungi of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: species diversity and identification guide". Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 87 (4): 3607. doi:10.5586/asbp.3607.


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