Sporastatia
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| Sporastatia | |
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| Sporastatia testudinea growing on a rock in Wheeler Peak, Nevada, USA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Rhizocarpales |
| Family: | Sporastatiaceae |
| Genus: | Sporastatia A.Massal. (1854) |
| Type species | |
| Sporastatia testudinea (Ach.) A.Massal. (1855) | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Sporastatia is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Sporastatiaceae. It has four species.[2] Sporastatia lichens are long-lived species that grow on siliceous or weakly calcareous rocks in arctic and alpine locales.
Sporastatia was circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1854, with Sporastatia testudinea assigned as the type species.[3] The name Gyrothecium, proposed by William Nylander in 1855,[4] is a synonym of Sporastatia.[1]
Following molecular phylogenetic studies published in 2013, Sporastatia was placed in a separate family, the Sporastatiaceae.[5] This family was shown to have a sister taxon relationship with the family Rhizocarpaceae, and together the two families comprise the order Rhizocarpales.[6]