Loxospora

Loxospora
Loxospora ochrophaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Sarrameanales
Family:	Sarrameanaceae
Genus:	Loxospora A.Massal. (1852)
Type species
Loxospora elatina (Ach.) A.Massal. (1852)

Loxospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. It has 13 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1852, with Loxospora elatina assigned as the type species.[2] This crustose lichen was originally named Lecanora elatina by Erik Acharius in 1810.

Species

• Loxospora assateaguensis Lendemer (2013)[3] – Assateague Island, USA
• Loxospora cismonica (Beltr.) Hafellner (1987)
• Loxospora confusa Lendemer (2013)[3] – mid-Atlantic coastal plain of eastern North America
• Loxospora cristinae Guzow-Krzem., Łubek, Kubiak & Kukwa (2018)[4] – Poland
• Loxospora cyamidia (Stirt.) Kantvilas (2000)
• Loxospora elatina (Ach.) A.Massal. (1852)
• Loxospora glaucomiza (Nyl.) Kalb & Staiger (1995)
• Loxospora isidiata Kalb (1992)[5]
• Loxospora lecanoriformis Lumbsch, A.W.Archer & Elix (2007)[6] – New South Wales, Australia
• Loxospora ochrophaea (Tuck.) R.C.Harris (1990)
• Loxospora septata (Sipman & Aptroot) Kantvilas (2000)
• Loxospora solenospora (Müll.Arg.) Kantvilas (2000)

Loxospora pustulata (Brodo & W.L.Culb.) Egan (1990) is now known as Lepra pustulata.[7]

References

1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; 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.
2. Massalongo, A.B. (1852). Ricerche sull'autonomia dei licheni crostosi (in Italian). Verona: Dalla tipografia di A. Frizierio. p. 137.
3. Lendemer, James C. (2013). "Two new sterile species of Loxospora (Sarrameanaceae: lichenized ascomycetes) from the mid-Atlantic coastal olain". Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science. 129 (3): 71–81. doi:10.7572/2167-5880-129.3.71.
4. Guzow-Krzemińska, Beata; Łubek, Anna; Kubiak, Dariusz; Ossowska, Emilia; Kukwa, Martin (2018). "Phylogenetic approaches reveal a new sterile lichen in the genus Loxospora (Sarrameanales, Ascomycota) in Poland". Phytotaxa. 348 (3): 211. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.348.3.4.
5. Kalb, K.; Hafellner, J. (1992). "Bemerkenswerte Flechten und lichenicole Pilze von der Insel Madeira". Herzogia (in German). 9 (1–2): 45–102. doi:10.1127/herzogia/9/1992/45. S2CID 249730366.
6. Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Archer, Alan W.; Elix, John A. (2007). "A new species of Loxospora (lichenized Ascomycota: Sarrameanaceae) from Australia". The Lichenologist. 39 (6): 509–517. doi:10.1017/S0024282907007153. S2CID 85061309.
7. Lendemer, James C.; Harris, Richard C. (2017). "Nomenclatural changes for North American members of the Variolaria-group necessitated by the recognition of Lepra (Pertusariales)". The Bryologist. 120 (2): 183–190. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.2.183. S2CID 89731360.