Baflavia is a monotypic genus of lichens in the family Pilocarpaceae. Circumscribed by Robert Lücking in 2008, it contains the single species Baflavia flavescens. This foliicolous lichen is found in tropical America, with the type specimen collected in Costa Rica.[1]
| Baflavia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Pilocarpaceae |
| Genus: | Baflavia Lücking |
| Species: | B. flavescens
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| Binomial name | |
| Baflavia flavescens (Lücking) Lücking
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Systematics
editWhen he first described the species in 1999, Lücking assigned it to the genus Barubria. However, he later reconsidered, as its appearance is distinctly different from that of other members of that genus. In 2008, he chose instead to circumscribe the monotypic genus Baflavia for it.[2]
References
edit- ^ Farkas 2015, p. 60.
- ^ Lücking 2008, p. 719.
Sources
edit- Farkas, Edit (January 2015). "Names of Bacidia s. l. in current use for foliicolous lichens – an annotated nomenclatural study" (PDF). Acta Botanica Hungarica. 57 (1): 51–70. doi:10.1556/ABot.57.2015.1-2.8.
- Lücking, Robert (September 2008). "Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi". Flora Neotropica. 103: 1–866. JSTOR 25660968.