Scytinium turgidum
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Collemataceae |
| Genus: | Scytinium |
| Species: | S. turgidum |
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Scytinium turgidum is a species of lichen-forming fungus in the family Collemataceae.[2]
The lichen was first formally described in 1810 by Erik Acharius as Collema turgidum, based on material from England sent to him by Dawson Turner; in the protologue, he described it as a thick, gelatinous species with an irregularly spreading, folded thallus studded with small wart-like lobules and bearing urn-shaped fruiting bodies (apothecia) with a swollen, slightly inturned margin. Acharius distinguished it from C. pulposum, C. fluviatile, and C. plicatile by its distinctive overall form and the shape of its apothecia.[3] James Mascall Morrison Crombie transferred it to Leptogium in 1871,[4] and it was largely known as a member of this genus for more than a century. In 2013, it was reclassified to Scytinium as part of a molecular phylogenetics-informed structural reorganization of the family Collemataceae.[5]
