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Aptrootia terricola

Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, L. Umaña & Chaves, in Lücking et al., Lichenologist 39(2): 188 (2007).

            ≡ Thelenella terricola Aptroot, Fungal Diversity 2: 45 (1999).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 528961; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12007, Fig. 1

Description: see Lücking et al. (2007, 2016, 2017).

Material considered: see Lücking et al. (2007, 2016, 2017).

Fig. 1 Aptrootia terricola (Costa Rica, Lücking 17211). a Thallus with perithecia. b Section through perithecium showing perithecial wall structure, hamathecium. c Young ascus, showing apically widening lateral walls and basal stipe. d anastomosing paraphysoids. e–g Immature, still hyaline ascospore. h Mature, dark brown ascospore. Scale bars: a = 1000 μm, b = 200 μm, c, e–h = 50 μm, d = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Aptrootia comprises three species. Aptrootia elatior and A. robusta were found on soil in rock crevices in Australia (Tasmania) while A. terricola was reported from moss on soil in Australia (Papua New Guinea).

 

References

Lücking R, Cking Sipman H, Uman L, Chaves JL, Lumbsch T. 2007 – Aptrootia (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for Thelenella terricola. The Lichenologist British Lichen Society 39, 187–193.

Lücking R, Hodkinson BP, Leavitt SD. 2017 – The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycotaapproaching one thousand genera. Bryologist 119, 361–416.

Lücking R, Nelsen MP, Aptroot A, Barillas de Klee R et al. 2016 – A phylogenetic framework for reassessing generic concepts and species delimitation in the lichenized family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes). Lichenologist 48, 739–762.

 

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