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Catapyrenium boccanum

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Species of lichen

Catapyrenium boccanum
Growing in a calcareous rock depression in Planalto das Cezaredas, Portugal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Catapyrenium
Species: C. boccanum
Binomial name
Catapyrenium boccanum
(Servít) Breuss (1990)
Synonyms
  • Dermatocarpon boccanum Servít (1955)
  • Placidium boccanum (Servít) Breuss (1996)

Catapyrenium boccanum is a species of squamulose (scaley), rock-dwelling lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It grows on mortar or on calcareous rock. Its squamules are up to 4 mm wide, pale to dark brown with black margins and a black underside. Ascospores measure 11–15 by 5–8 μm. Because of its combination of squamulose thallus, simple ascospores (without any septa), and lack of algae in the hymenium, this species is a "catapyrenioid" lichen, of which more than 80 exist in the Verrucariaceae.

The lichen was first formally described as a new species in 1955 by Czech lichenologist Miroslav Servít. Othmar Breuss transferred it to Catapyrenium in 1990 as part of a revision of that genus. In Europe, the lichen has a largely Mediterranean distribution, although scattered records are known from western and southern Europe. It is also found in Turkey.

References

  1. Breuss, O. (1996). "Ein verfeinertes Gliederungskonzept für Catapyrenium (lichenisierte Ascomyceten, Verrucariaceae)" [A refined generic concept for Catapyrenium (lichenized ascomycetes, Verrucariaceae)]. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien (in German). 98 (Suppl.): 35–50 . JSTOR 41767013.
  2. "Synonymy. Current Name: Catapyrenium boccanum (Servít) Breuss, Stapfia 23: 77 (1990)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  3. ^ Prieto, María; Aragón, Gregorio; Martínez, Isabel (2010). "The genus Catapyrenium s. lat. (Verrucariaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands". The Lichenologist. 42 (6): 637–684. doi:10.1017/s0024282910000319.
  4. Breuss, Othmar (2010). "An updated world-wide key to the catapyrenioid lichens (Verrucariaceae)". Herzogia. 23 (2): 205–216. doi:10.13158/heia.23.2.2010.205.
  5. Servít, M. (1955). "Lichenes novi" [New lichens]. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenské Akademie Ved (in Czech). 65 (3): 1–43 .
  6. Breuss, O. (1990). Die Flechtengattung Catapyrenium (Verrucariaceae) [The lichen genus Catapyrenium (Verrucariaceae)] (PDF). Stapfia (in German). Vol. 23. p. 77.
  7. Halici, Mehmet Gökhan; Aksoy, Ahmet (2009). "Lichenised and lichenicolous fungi of Aladağlar National Park (Niğde, Kayseri and Adana Provinces) in Turkey". Turkish Journal of Botany. 33: 169–189. doi:10.3906/bot-0810-14.
Taxon identifiers
Catapyrenium boccanum
Dermatocarpon boccanum


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