| Scoliciosporum | |
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| Herbarium specimen of Scoliciosporum chlorococcum growing on the bark of a red maple | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Scoliciosporaceae |
| Genus: | Scoliciosporum A.Massal. (1852) |
| Type species | |
| Scoliciosporum holomelaeum (Flörke) A.Massal. (1852) | |
| Synonyms | |
Scoliciosporum is a genus of lichens in the family Scoliciosporaceae.
Taxonomy
The genus was reinstated by Antonin Vězda in 1978 to contain crustose lichens with immarginate apothecia, gelatinized, branched and anastomosing paraphyses, eight-spored, usually Lecanora-type asci, and hyaline, multi-septate ascospores.
Scoliciosporum was originally placed in the family Micareaceae by Josef Poelt in 1974. This classification was rejected after the appearance of molecular phylogenetic studies in the mid-2000s.
Habitat and distribution
Scoliciosporum species grow mainly on bark, stones and leaves. They occur mostly in temperate locales.
Species
- Scoliciosporum abietinum T.Sprib. (2009)
- Scoliciosporum arachnoideum Aptroot (2008) – Madagascar
- Scoliciosporum camptosporum (Vain.) Aptroot (2002)
- Scoliciosporum chlorococcum (Graewe ex Stenh.) Vězda (1978)
- Scoliciosporum coniectum Kantvilas & Lumbsch (2010)
- Scoliciosporum curvatum Sérus. (1993)
- Scoliciosporum fabisporum Fryday & I.Medeiros (2020) – South Africa
- Scoliciosporum holomelaenum (Flörke) A.Massal. (1852)
- Scoliciosporum intrusum (Th.Fr.) Hafellner (2004)
- Scoliciosporum jasonhurii S.Y.Kondr., S.O.Oh & Lőkös (2016)
- Scoliciosporum pensylvanicum R.C.Harris (2009)
- Scoliciosporum pruinosum (P.James) Vězda (1978)
- Scoliciosporum sarothamni (Vain.) Vězda (1978)
- Scoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Lojka (1869)
- Scoliciosporum vouauxii (B.de Lesd.) Hafellner (2002)
References
- "Synonymy. Current name: Scoliciosporum A. Massal". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; Dolatabadi, S; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
- Vězda, A. (1978). "Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II" [New or lesser-known lichens in Czechoslovakia]. Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica (in German). 13 (4): 397–420. doi:10.1007/BF02851943. S2CID 27279985.
- Poelt, J. (1974) Classification. In The Lichens (V. Ahmadjian & M. E. Hale, eds): 599–632. New York and London: Academic Press.
- Andersen, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2004). "Phylogeny of the Micareaceae inferred from nrSSU DNA sequences". The Lichenologist. 36 (1): 27–35. doi:10.1017/S0024282904013507. S2CID 85770914.
- Andersen, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2005). "Disintegration of the Micareaceae (lichenized Ascomycota): A molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences". Mycological Research. 109 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1017/S0953756204001625. PMID 15736860.
- Kantvilas, Gintaras (2008). "Observations on the genus Scoliciosporum in Australia, with the description of a second species of Jarmania". The Lichenologist. 40 (3): 213–219. doi:10.1017/S0024282908007779. S2CID 84627669.
- Aptroot, André (2008). "A new Scoliciosporum from Madagascar". The Lichenologist. 40 (2): 119–122. doi:10.1017/S0024282908007743. S2CID 84644782.
- Fryday, Alan M.; Medeiros, Ian D.; Siebert, Stefan J.; Pope, Nathaniel; Rajakaruna, Nishanta (2020). "Burrowsia, a new genus of lichenized fungi (Caliciaceae), plus the new species B. cataractae and Scoliciosporum fabisporum, from Mpumalanga, South Africa". South African Journal of Botany. 132: 471–481. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2020.06.001.