Cruentotrema
Cruentotrema
Genus of lichens
Cruentotrema is a genus of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichens in the family Graphidaceae. It has seven species.
| Cruentotrema | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Cruentotrema Rivas Plata, Papong, Lumbsch & Lücking (2012) |
| Type species | |
| Cruentotrema cruentatum (Mont.) Rivas Plata, Lumbsch & Lücking (2012) | |
| Species | |
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C. amazonum | |
The genus was circumscribed in 2012 by Rivas Plata, Papong, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, and Robert Lücking, with Cruentotrema cruentatum assigned as the type species. This enigmatic lichen had previously been described three times under different names: as Stictis cruentata Mont. (1855), as Arthothelium puniceum Müll.Arg. (1893), and as Thelotrema rhododiscum Homchantara and Coppins (2002). Molecular phylogenetics revealed its true affinities in the subfamily Fissurinoideae of the family Graphidaceae. The genus name combines the species epithet of the type species with the suffix -trema. Three species were included in the original circumscription of the genus.[1]
Characteristics of the genus include rounded, erumpent ascomata, a carbonised (blackened) excipulum, the absence of a columella, and inamyloid asci and hamathecium. The ascospores of Cruentotrema lichens number eight per ascus, and are colourless and ellipsoid with thick septa and diamond-shaped chambers (lumina) of the Trypethelium-type.[1]
- Cruentotrema amazonum M.Cáceres, Aptroot & Lücking (2014)[2]
- Cruentotrema cruentatum (Mont.) Rivas Plata, Lumbsch & Lücking (2012)[1]
- Cruentotrema kurandense (Mangold) Rivas Plata, Lumbsch & Lücking (2012)[1]
- Cruentotrema lirelliforme J.Kalb, Polyiam & Kalb (2016)[3]
- Cruentotrema puniceum (Müll.Arg.) J.Kalb & Kalb (2016)[3]
- Cruentotrema siamense Lücking & Kalb (2021)[4]
- Cruentotrema thailandicum Rivas Plata, Papong & Lumbsch (2012)[1]
- Rivas Plata, Eimy; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2011). "A new classification for the family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes: Ostropales)". Fungal Diversity. 52 (1): 107–121. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0135-8. S2CID 256067459.
- Cáceres, Marcela E.S.; Aptroot, André; Parnmen, Sittiporn; Lücking, Robert (2014). "Remarkable diversity of the lichen family Graphidaceae in the Amazon rain forest of Rondônia, Brazil". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 87–136. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.8.
- Kalb, Jutarat; Polyiam, Wetchasart; Plata, Eimy Rivas; Bawingan, Paulina A.; Kalb, Klaus; Lücking, Robert (2016). "'Missing links' alive? Novel taxa represent morphological transitions between distinctive phenotypes among extant Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales)". Phytotaxa. 268 (2): 110–122. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.268.2.2.
- Kalb, K.; Schumm, F. (2021). "New or otherwise interesting lichens. IX. Four new species in the family Graphidaceae, one new combination, new records and remarks". Archive for Lichenology. 22: 1–22.