Xanthoria

<i>Xanthoria</i>

Xanthoria

Genus of lichens in the family Teloschistaceae

Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] Common names include orange lichen,[3] orange wall lichen,[4]: 134  and sunburst lichen.[4]: 134  They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".

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Species

As of October 2023, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 19 species of Xanthoria.[5]

  • Xanthoria aureola (Ach.) Erichsen (1930)
  • Xanthoria calcicola Oxner (1937)
  • Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria ectaneoides (Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1931)
  • Xanthoria hypogymnioides S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria ibizaensis S.Y.Kondr. & A.S.Kondr. (2020)
  • Xanthoria juniperina S.Y.Kondr. (2013)
  • Xanthoria kangarooensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)
  • Xanthoria lapalmaensis Schumm & S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th.Fr. (1860) – common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen, shore lichen[6]
  • Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013)
  • Xanthoria rutilans (Ach.) S.Y.Kondr. (2002)
  • Xanthoria schummii S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria splendidula (Zahlbr.) Makryĭ (2007)
  • Xanthoria ulophyllodes Räsänen (1931) – powdery sunburst lichen[6]
  • Xanthoria whinrayi S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria yorkensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)

The taxa Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007) and Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013) were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication.[7] The taxon once known as Xanthoria elegans is now Rusavskia elegans, the type species of genus Rusavskia.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Synonymy. Current Name: Xanthoria (Fr.) Th. Fr., Lich. arct. (Uppsala): 66 (1860)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. [2]
    Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
  3. [3]
    Xanthoria. USDA PLANTS.
  4. [4]
    Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  5. [5]
    "Xanthoria". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. [6]
    Waleski Joe (2007). Lichens of the North Woods Duluth, MN: Kollath+Stensaas
  7. [7]
    Tsurykau, Andrei; Bely, Pavel; Arup, Ulf (2020). "Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal two new synonyms of Xanthoria parietina". Plant and Fungal Systematics. 65 (2): 620–623. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0033.
  8. [8]
    Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.


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