Lichinella
Genus of lichens
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Lichinella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lichinellaceae.
| Lichinella | |
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| Lichinella cribellifera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lichinomycetes |
| Order: | Lichinales |
| Family: | Lichinellaceae |
| Genus: | Lichinella Nyl. (1873) |
| Type species | |
| Lichinella stipatula Nyl. (1872) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed in 1872 by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander.[2]
In a 2024 multilocus molecular phylogenetics-informed re-classification of the Lichinomycetes, Lichinella was placed in the newly erected family Lichinellaceae together with Edwardiella, Gonotichia and Synalissina. The authors treat Lichinella as a medium-sized genus of almost 30 species, and diagnose the family by thallinocarpous ascomata (fruiting bodies developing within the thallus) and a Lichinella-type ascus. Several names formerly placed in segregate genera have been combined into Lichinella (e.g. transfers from Gonohymenia and Thallinocarpon), reflecting the new phylogeny.[3]
Species
- Lichinella algerica (J.Steiner) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella americana Henssen (1969)
- Lichinella applanata Henssen (1963)
- Lichinella cribellifera (Nyl.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella flexa Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986)[4]
- Lichinella granulosa M.Schultz (2005)[5]
- Lichinella heppii (Müll.Arg.) P.Clerc & Cl.Roux (2004)
- Lichinella hondoana (Zahlbr.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella inflata (Henssen) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella intermedia Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986)[4]
- Lichinella iodopulchra (Couderc ex Croz.) P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella lojkana Hue (1898)
- Lichinella mauritanica (O.L.Lange) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella melamphylla (Tuck.) Essl. (1995)
- Lichinella minnesotensis (Fink) Essl. (1995)
- Lichinella myriospora (Zahlbr.) P.P.Moreno & Egea ex M.Schultz (2005)
- Lichinella polyspora (H.Magn.) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella robusta Henssen (1963)
- Lichinella robustoides Henssen, Büdel & T.H.Nash (1986)[4]
- Lichinella sinaica (Galun & Marton) P.P.Moreno & Egea (1992)
- Lichinella stipatula Nyl. (1872)
- Lichinella undulata (Henssen) M.Schultz & van den Boom (2007)
