Nigrovothelium

Nigrovothelium
Nigrovothelium tropicum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Trypetheliales
Family:	Trypetheliaceae
Genus:	Nigrovothelium Lücking, M.P.Nelsen & Aptroot (2016)
Type species
Nigrovothelium tropicum (Ach.) Lücking, M.P.Nelsen & Aptroot (2016)
Species
N. bullatum N. inspersotropicum N. tropicum

Nigrovothelium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has three species.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2016 by lichenologists Robert Lücking, Matthew Nelsen, and André Aptroot, to contain species formerly in the Trypethelium tropicum species group.[2] The type species, Nigrovothelium tropicum, was originally described by Erik Acharius in 1810, as a species of Verrucaria.[3]

The genus can be characterised by its differences from other similar Trypetheliaceae genera. It differs from Astrothelium in that it has ascomata that are black, fully exposed, and sessile. It differs from Bathelium in its mostly single, black ascomata and astrothelioid ascospores. It differs from Polymeridium in its corticate thallus and astrothelioid ascospores.[2]

Species

• Nigrovothelium bullatum Lücking, Upreti & Lumbsch (2016)
• Nigrovothelium inspersotropicum Aptroot & Diederich (2017)[4]
• Nigrovothelium tropicum (Ach.) Lücking, M.P.Nelsen & Aptroot (2016)

References

1. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453 [124]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
2. Lücking, Robert; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Aptroot, André; Barillas de Klee, Roselvira; Bawingan, Paulina A.; Benatti, Michel N.; et al. (2016). "A phylogenetic framework for reassessing generic concepts and species delimitation in the lichenized family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes)". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 739–762. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000505.
3. Acharius, E. (1810). Lichenographia Universalis (in Latin). Gottingen: Iust. Frid. Danckwerts. p. 278.
4. Diederich, Paul; Lücking, Robert; Aptroot, André; Sipman, Harrie J.M.; Braun, Uwe; Ahti, Teuvo; Ertz, Damien (2017). "New species and new records of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Seychelles". Herzogia. 30 (1): 182–236. doi:10.13158/heia.30.1.2017.182.