Microcalicium

Microcalicium
Microcalicium disseminatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Microcaliciaceae
Tibell (1984)[1]
Genus: Microcalicium
Vain. (1927)
Type species
Microcalicium disseminatum
(Ach.) Vain. (1927)

Microcalicium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.[2] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Microcaliciaceae. These taxa were circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1927, with Microcalicium disseminatum assigned as the type species.[3]

Description

Species of Microcalicium have a mazaediate ascomata (an irregularly spherical fruiting body in which ascus walls break down to leave a dry, loose, amorphous, powdery, often dark, mass of spores together with disintegrating asci and paraphyses). Their asci are ellipsoid in shape and non-amyloid.[4]

Species

As of May 2024, Species Fungorum accepts the following five species in the genus Microcalicium:[5]

References

  1. ^ Tibell, Leif (1984). A Reappraisal of the Taxonomy of Caliciales. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. Vol. 79. J. Cramer. p. 701.
  2. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; S, 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.
  3. ^ a b Vainio, Edvard August (1927). "Lichenographia Fennica III. Coniocarpaceae" (PDF). Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 57 (1): 77.
  4. ^ Jaklitsch, Walter; Baral, Hans-Otto; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2016). Frey, Wolfgang (ed.). Syllabus of Plant Families: Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Vol. 1/2 (13 ed.). Berlin Stuttgart: Gebr. Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Borntraeger Science Publishers. p. 148. ISBN 978-3-443-01089-8. OCLC 429208213.
  5. ^ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Microcalicium". Catalog of Life Version 2024-04-26. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  6. ^ a b Tibell, L. (1978). "The genus Microcalicium". Botaniska Notiser. 131: 229–246.
  7. ^ a b Holien, H.; Frisch, A. (2022). "Microcalicium loraasii, a new calicioid fungus from old-growth boreal forest in Norway" (PDF). Graphis Scripta. 34 (4): 42–50.