Arthonia
Arthonia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
Order: | Arthoniales |
Family: | Arthoniaceae |
Genus: | Arthonia Ach. (1806) |
Type species | |
Arthonia radiata (Pers.) Ach. (1808)
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Species | |
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Arthonia is a genus of lichens in the family Arthoniaceae.[1] It was circumscribed by Swedish botanist Erik Acharius in 1806.
It is a genus of thin crustose lichen of widely varying forms, commonly called comma lichens.[2]: 222
Gallery[]
Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium of A. caesia taken through a compound microscope, x 400.
Photograph of two spores (3-septate, 4-celled) from Arthonia caesia taken through a compound microscope, x 1000. (spores measure 21 x 5 micrometres)
Species[]
- Müll. Arg., 1895
- (Ach.) Müll. Arg., 1880
- Nyl., 1856
- Stirt., 1878
- A. Massal., 1860.
- Stirt., 1878
- Müll. Arg., 1880
- (Mont.) Kremp., 1878
- (A. Massal.) Jatta, 1900
- Alstrup, M.S. Christ. & Hafellner, 1993
- Müll. Arg., 1894
- (Müll. Arg.) Willey, 1890
- C. Knight, 1860
- Nyl., 1886
- Stirt., 1899
- Arthonia didyma
- Arthonia elegans
- Arthonia ilicinella
- Arthonia leucopellaea
- Arthonia vinosa
References[]
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
- ^ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
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Categories:
- Arthoniomycetes
- Arthoniomycetes genera
- Lichens
- Taxa named by Erik Acharius
- Taxa described in 1806
- Lecanoromycetes stubs