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]
| Microcalicium | |
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| Microcalicium disseminatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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Description
editSpecies 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
editAs of May 2024[update], Species Fungorum accepts the following five species in the genus Microcalicium:[5]
- Microcalicium ahlneri Tibell (1978)[6]
- Microcalicium arenarium (Hampe ex A.Massal.) Tibell (1978)[7]
- Microcalicium conversum Tibell (1978)[6]
- Microcalicium disseminatum (Ach.) Vain. (1927)[3]
- Microcalicium loraasii Holien & Frisch (2022)[7]
References
edit- ^ Tibell, Leif (1984). A Reappraisal of the Taxonomy of Caliciales. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. Vol. 79. J. Cramer. p. 701.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Vainio, Edvard August (1927). "Lichenographia Fennica III. Coniocarpaceae" (PDF). Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. 57 (1): 77.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Microcalicium". Catalog of Life Version 2024-04-26. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- ^ a b Tibell, L. (1978). "The genus Microcalicium". Botaniska Notiser. 131: 229–246.
- ^ 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.