Varicellaria

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Varicellaria

Genus of lichen

Varicellaria is a genus of crustose lichens. It is the only genus in the family Varicellariaceae.[2]

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Taxonomy

The genus Varicellaria was circumscribed by Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1858, with Varicellaria microsticta assigned as the type species.[3][4]

The family Varicellariaceae, containing only the type genus Varicellaria, was informally proposed by Brendan Hodkinson, Richard Harris, and James Lendemer in 2011.[5] H. Thorsten Lumbsch and Steven Leavitt formally published the family in 2018.[6] However, the taxon was not validly published because "an identifier issued by a recognized repository was not cited in the protologue", contrary to rules of botanical nomenclature.[7] This nomenclatural oversight was rectified later the same year in a separate publication.[8]

Description

Characteristics of the family Varicellariaceae are similar to those of its genus. These are: a crustose thallus, unicellular green algal photobionts from genus Trebouxia, ascomata in the form of disc-like apothecia, non-amyloid gel in the hymenium, strongly amyloid, one- or two-spored asci, and hyaline, thick-walled, one-layered, one- or two-celled ascospores.[6]

Collectively, the species in genus Varicellaria have a cosmopolitan distribution.[4]

Species

  • Varicellaria culbersonii (Vězda) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)
  • Varicellaria emeiensis Q.Ren (2018)[9] – China
  • Varicellaria hemisphaerica (Flörke) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)
  • Varicellaria kasandjeffii (Szatala) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)
  • Varicellaria lactea (L.) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)
  • Varicellaria microsticta Nyl. (1858)[3]
  • Varicellaria philippina (Vain.) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)
  • Varicellaria rhodocarpa (Körb.) Th.Fr. (1871)
  • Varicellaria velata (Turner) I.Schmitt & Lumbsch (2012)

References

  1. [1]
    "Synonymy: Varicellaria Nyl., Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg 5: 119 (1858)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Nylander, W. (1857). "Enumération générale de lichens, avec l'indication sommaire de leur distribution géographique". Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg (in French). 5: 117, 119.
  4. [4]
    "Varicellaria Nyl". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  5. [5]
    Hodkinson, B.P.; Lendemer, J. (2011). "The orders of Ostropomycetidae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota): Recognition of Sarrameanales and Trapeliales with a request to retain Pertusariales over Agyriales". Phytologia. 93 (3): 407–412.
  6. [6]
    Kraichak, Ekaphan; Huang, Jen-Pan; Nelsen, Matthew; Leavitt, Steven D.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2018). "A revised classification of orders and families in the two major subclasses of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) based on a temporal approach". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (3): 233–249. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boy060.
  7. [7]
    "Record Details: Varicellariaceae B.P. Hodk., R.C. Harris & Lendemer ex Lumbsch & Leavitt, in Kraichak, Huang, Nelsen, Leavitt & Lumbsch, Bot. J. Linn. Soc.: 10.1093/botlinnean/boy060, 15 (2018)". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  8. [8]
    Kraichak, Ekaphan; Huang, Jen-Pan; Nelsen, Matthew; Leavitt, Steven D.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2018). "Nomenclatural novelties". Index Fungorum (375): 1. ISSN 2049-2375.
  9. [9]
    Zhou, J.; Ren, Q. (2018). "Varicellaria emeiensis sp. nov. and a review of the genus in China". Mycotaxon. 133 (1): 71–78. doi:10.5248/133.71.
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