Pterygiopsis

Pterygiopsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lichinomycetes
Order:	Lichinales
Family:	Lichinaceae
Genus:	Pterygiopsis Vain. (1890)
Type species
Pterygiopsis atra Vain. (1890)
Synonyms
Enchylium A.Massal. (1853) Forssellia Zahlbr. (1906) Pterygiopsidomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Pterygiopsis is a genus of fungi within the family Lichinaceae. It contains 11 species.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1890, to contain the single Brazilian species Pterygiopsis atra.[2]

Species

• Pterygiopsis atra Vain. (1890)
• Pterygiopsis australiensis Henssen (1990)
• Pterygiopsis cava M.Schultz (2006)[3]
• Pterygiopsis concordatula (Nyl.) P.M.Jørg. (2007)
• Pterygiopsis convoluta Henssen (1990)
• Pterygiopsis coracodiza (Nyl.) Henssen (1990)
• Pterygiopsis densisidiata Aptroot, Oliveira Junior & M.Cáceres (2020)[4]
• Pterygiopsis guyanensis M.Schultz, Porembski & Büdel (2000)[5]
• Pterygiopsis lacustris P.M.Jørg. & R.Sant. (1990)[6]
• Pterygiopsis mutabilis M.Schultz (2006)[3]
• Pterygiopsis pulchra M.Schultz (2004)[7]
• Pterygiopsis umbilicata (Vězda) Henssen (1990)

References

1. "Pterygiopsis". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
2. Vainio, E.A. (1890). "Étude sur la classification naturelle et la morphologie des Lichens du Brésil. Pars prima". Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 7 (1): 1–247.
3. Schultz, Matthias (2006). "Pterygiopsis cava and P. mutabilis (Lichinaceae), two new species from southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico". The Bryologist. 109 (1): 68–79. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2006)109[0068:PCAPML]2.0.CO;2.
4. de Oliveira Junior, Isaias; Aptroot, André; dos Santos, Lidiane Alves; Cavalcante, Janice Gomes; Košuthová, Alica; da Silva Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia (2020). "Two further new lichen species from the Atlantic Forest remnant Pedra Talhada (Alagoas, Brazil), with a species list". The Bryologist. 123 (4): 617–632. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-123.4.617.
5. Schultz, M.; Porembski, S.; Büdel, B. (2000). "Diversity of rock‐inhabiting cyanobacterial lichens: studies on granite inselbergs along the Orinoco and in Guyana". Plant Biology. 2 (4): 482–495. doi:10.1055/s-2000-5951.
6. Jørgensen, P.M. (1990). "The lichen genus Pterygiopsis in northern Europe". The Lichenologist. 22 (3): 213–217. doi:10.1017/S0024282990000238.
7. Schultz, M. (2004). "Pterygiopsis pulchra, a remarkable new species of the Lichinaceae from south-eastern Yemen". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 88: 555–560.