Bathelium carolinianum
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| Bathelium carolinianum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Trypetheliales |
| Family: | Trypetheliaceae |
| Genus: | Bathelium |
| Species: | B. carolinianum |
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| Bathelium carolinianum (Tuck.) R.C.Harris (1995) | |
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Bathelium carolinianum is a species of crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae.[1] It is found in the eastern United States.
The lichen was first formally described as a new species in 1858 by American lichenologist Edward Tuckerman. His diagnosis of the new species was as follows (translated from Latin): "Trypethelium carolinianum, new species, with a crustaceous, smooth, and wax-like thallus turning from green to brownish, with warts that are depressed to somewhat hemispherical, confluent, of irregular shape, and somewhat anastomosing, turning deep brown to blackish, with a yellow stroma, perithecia that are ovoid, thin, and black, and ostioles that are papillate and black." The species epithet carolinianum refers to the type locality, in Santee Canal, South Carolina, where Henry William Ravenel found it growing on tree trunks in 1851.[2] Richard Harris transferred the species to the genus Bathelium in 1995.[3]