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Verrucula arnoldaria

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Species of lichen

Verrucula arnoldaria
Verrucula arnoldaria (darkened parts of thallus) growing on Calogaya arnoldii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Verrucula
Species: V. arnoldaria
Binomial name
Verrucula arnoldaria
Nav.-Ros. & Cl.Roux (2007)

Verrucula arnoldaria is a rare species of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) lichen in the family Verrucariaceae. It grows parasitically on the thallus of the rock-dwelling, crustose lichen Calogaya arnoldii. The species was formally described as new to science in 2007 by lichenologists Père Navarro-Rosinés and Claude Roux, from specimens collected in Vaucluse, France. It has also been recorded from Italy. The lichen has a thick brownish-grey, areolate thallus that roughly maintains the shape of its underlying host. The thallus is covered with a crystalline pruina. It makes ellipsoid spores that measure up to about 15 μm long. Its host grows on calciferous rocks and calciferous schists.

References

  1. Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425 . doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
  2. Navarro-Rosinés, P.; Roux, C.; Gueidan, C. (2007). "La generoj Verrucula kaj Verruculopsis (Verrucariaceae, Verrucariales)". Bulletin de la Société Linnéene de Provence (in Esperanto). 58: 133–180.
  3. Nimis, Pier Luigi (2016). The Lichens of Italy. A Second Annotated Catalogue. Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste. p. 543. ISBN 978-88-8303-755-9.
  4. Nimis, Pier Luigi; Hafellner, Josef; Roux, Claude; Clerc, Philippe; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Martellos, Stefano; Bilovitz, Peter O. (2018). "The lichens of the Alps – an annotated checklist". MycoKeys (31): 420. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.31.23568. PMC 5914158.
Taxon identifiers
Verrucula arnoldaria


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