Scutula

Scutula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Ramalinaceae
Genus: Scutula
Tul. (1852)
Type species
Scutula wallrothii
Tul. (1852)
Synonyms[1]

Scutula is a genus of lichenicolous fungi in the family Ramalinaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus Scutula was circumscribed by French botanist Louis René Étienne Tulasne in 1862.[2] The limits of the generic circumscription as well as the limits of certain species in Scutula was confused for a long time.[3][4][5][6] In 1997, Triebel and colleagues applied the name Scutula specifically to a group of species growing on hosts of the Lecanorales suborder Peltigerineae, a monophyletic grouping of cyanobacteria-associated lichens.[7] Before this, Scutula was applied to a diverse set of unrelated lichenicolous fungi featuring hyaline spores with a single septum and sessile apothecia.[8]

Once classified in the family Micareaceae, molecular phylogenetic analysis showed Scutula to be nested within the Ramalinaceae, closely related to the genus Toninia.[9] This familial placement has been accepted in recent large-scale updates of fungal classifications.[10][11][12]

Description

Scutula species are characterized by apothecia that are either lecideine (where exciple forms the underside and outer layer of the apothecium, extending up to the rim, where it forms a darkened "proper margin") or biatorine (having a pale, not darkened proper margin and always lacking a thalline margin). The paraphyses are non-capitate (i.e., lacking a knob-like structure at the tip). Asci have a fuzzy amyloid (in Lugol's iodine solution after pre-treatment with KOH) axial tube structure of the ‘Scutula’-type. The ascospores are smooth, hyaline, and contain a single septum. Anamorphs associated with Scutula include Libertiella in the mesoconidia and Karsteniomyces in the macroconidia.[8]

Species

References

  1. ^ "Synonymy: Scutula Tul". Species Fungorum. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Tulasne, L.-R. (1852). "Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire organographique et physiologique des Lichens". Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique. Série 3 (in French). 17: 118.
  3. ^ Santesson, R. (1960). "Lichenicolous fungi from northern Spain". Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. 54 (4): 499–522.
  4. ^ Hawksworth, D.L. (1986). "Notes on British lichenicolous fungi: V". Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. 43 (3): 497–519.
  5. ^ Hawksworth, D.L. (2000). "Notes on some fungi occurring on Peltigera, with a key to accepted species". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 74 (2): 363–386. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(80)80167-7.
  6. ^ Hawksworth; D.L. (2003). "The lichenicolous fungi of Great Britain and Ireland: an overview and annotated checklist". The Lichenologist. 35 (3): 191–232. doi:10.1016/S0024-2829(03)00027-6.
  7. ^ a b Triebel, D.; Wedin, M.; Rambold, G. (1997). "The genus Scutula (lichenicolous ascomycetes, Lecanorales): species on the Peltigera canina and P. horizontalis groups". Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses. 32 (1): 323–337.
  8. ^ a b Wedin, Mats; Ihlen, Per G.; Triebel, Dagmar (2007). "Scutula tuberculosa, the correct name of the Scutula growing on Solorina spp., with a key to Scutula s. str. in the Northern Hemisphere". The Lichenologist. 39 (4): 329–333. doi:10.1017/S0024282907006949.
  9. ^ Andersen, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2005). "Disintegration of the Micareaceae (lichenized Ascomycota)—a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences". Mycological Research. 109 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1017/S0953756204001625. PMID 15736860.
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  13. ^ Etayo, J.; Triebel, D. (2010). "New and interesting lichenicolous fungi at the Botanische Staatssammlung München". The Lichenologist. 42 (3): 231–240. doi:10.1017/S0024282909990417.