Amandinea
| Amandinea | |
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| Amandinea punctata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Amandinea M.Choisy ex Scheid. & M.Mayrhofer (1993) |
| Type species | |
| Amandinea coniops (Wahlenb.) M.Choisy ex Scheid. & H.Mayrhofer (1993) | |
Amandinea is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains an estimated 34 species.[1] Genetic studies indicates that the genus Amandinea and Buellia are the same,[2] although this is not widely accepted.[3]
Species
- Amandinea augusta
- Amandinea babingtonii
- Amandinea coniops
- Amandinea crassiuscula
- Amandinea dakotensis
- Amandinea decedens
- Amandinea efflorescens
- Amandinea endochroa
- Amandinea errata
- Amandinea extenuata
- Amandinea incrustans
- Amandinea insperata
- Amandinea isabellina
- Amandinea langloisii
- Amandinea lecideina
- Amandinea maritima
- Amandinea mediospora
- Amandinea megaspora
- Amandinea melaxanthella
- Amandinea microsticta
- Amandinea milliaria
- Amandinea myrticola
- Amandinea petermannii
- Amandinea punctata
- Amandinea submontana
- Amandinea subduplicata
- Amandinea subplicata
- Amandinea turgescens
- Amandinea xylographella
Gallery
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Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium from A. punctata taken through a compound microscope, x400. (The exciple is uniformly pigmented dark brown; the epihymenium is brown; the hypothecium is brown black.)
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Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium of A. polyspora through a compound microscope (x1000) showing 25+ spores per ascus
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Photograph of a cross section of an apothecium of A. punctata taken through a compound microscope (x1000), showing 8 brown 1-septate spores per ascus.
References
- ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ Scheidegger, C. 2009. Amandinea Choisy ex Scheid. & H. Mayrhofer (1993). In: C. W. Smith, A. Aptroot, B. J. Coppins, A. Fletcher, O. L. Gilbert, P. W. James and P. A. Wosley (eds.) The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland. The British Lichen Society, Natural History Museum Publications, United Kingdom, pp. 142–144
- ↑ Amandinea punctata in the Joshua Tree National Park (California, U.S.A.) Map collection: Kerry Knudsen, Kocourková Jana; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Ecology, Czech Republic; 2012
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