Obscuroplaca
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Obscuroplaca | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Obscuroplaca camptidia growing on oak in Delmarva, Virginia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Teloschistales |
| Family: | Teloschistaceae |
| Genus: | Obscuroplaca Søchting, Arup & Bungartz (2021) |
| Type species | |
| Obscuroplaca camptidia (Tuck.) Søchting, Arup & Bungartz (2021) | |
| Species | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| |
Obscuroplaca is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It contains three species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens.[2]
The genus, published in 2021 by lichenologists Ulrik Søchting, Ulf Arup, and Frank Bungartz, is a replacement for Phaeoplaca,[3] an illegitimate name circumscribed by the same authors the previous year. The genus name combines the Latin obscuro ("dark", alluding to the dull colour of the thallus, which lacks the bright anthraquinones typical of other Teloschistaceae members), with placa, a reference to Caloplaca, the genus from which the species were originally transferred.[4]
Obscuroplaca occupies a distinct and well-defined clade within the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family Teloschistaceae.[4]