Biology:Oxneriaria

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Oxneriaria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Megasporaceae
Genus: Oxneriaria
S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
Type species
Oxneriaria mashiginensis
(Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)

Oxneriaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megasporaceae. It has nine species, all of which are saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens. The genus was circumscribed in 2017 by Sergey Kondratyuk and László Lőkös to contain species formerly in the Aspicilia mashiginensis species group.[1] This species, now the type of the genus, was first described scientifically by Alexander Zahlbruckner as Lecanora mashiginensis.[2] The genus name honours Ukrainian lichenologist Alfred Oxner, who, according to the authors, "provided important contribution [sic] to taxonomy of aspicilioid lichens and to biodiversity of polar lichens".[1]

Oxneriaria is morphologically similar to Aspicilia, but differs from this genus in its mostly radiating thallus with either a wrinkled or lobate zone around the margins, in its generally smaller ascospores, and in the presence of the lichen product substictic acid. Species in the genus have a polar and arctic–alpine distribution.[1]

Species

  • Oxneriaria dendroplaca (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria haeyrenii (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria mashiginensis (Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria nikrapensis (Darb.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria permutata (Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria rivulicola (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria supertegens (Arnold) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria verruculosa (Kremp.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
  • Oxneriaria virginea (Hue) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Haji Moniri, M.; Gromakova, A.B.; Lőkös, L.; Kondratyuk, S.Y. (2017). "New members of the Megasporaceae (Pertusariales, lichen-forming Ascomycota): Megaspora iranica spec. nova and Oxneriaria gen. nova". Acta Botanica Hungarica 59 (3–4): 343–370. doi:10.1556/034.59.2017.3-4.5. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319865490. 
  2. Zahlbruckner, A. (1928). "Die Gattung Lecanora" (in de). Report of the Scientific Results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemlya 44: 1–32. 

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