Fouragea

Fouragea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Opegraphaceae
Genus: Fouragea
Trevis. (1880)
Type species
Fouragea filicina
(Mont.) Trevis. (1880)

Fouragea is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae.[1][2] It has nine species.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1880,[3] for the species Opegrapha filicina, first described by Camille Montagne. Several features distinguished this lichen from the usual, bark-dwelling Opegrapha species: its slender ascocarps, which are a result of its foliicolous lifestyle, the absence of a dark excipulum at the base, and the preference for Phycopeltis as a photobiont instead of Trentepohlia.

The genus was reinstated in 2014 to contain foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) Opegrapha species, following a molecular phylogenetics-led reorganisation of the order Arthoniales.[4] Prior molecular work had already demonstrated that the foliicolous species, O. filicina and O. viridistellata, formed an independent lineage at the base of the Opegraphaceae.[5][6]

Species

References

  1. ^ "Fouragea". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  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 [89]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
  3. ^ Trevisan, V.B.A. (1880). "Sulle Garovaglinee, nuovo tribu di Collemacee". Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere Scienze Biologiche (in Italian). 13 (3): 65–77.
  4. ^ Frisch, Andreas; Thor, Göran; Ertz, Damien; Grube, Martin (2014). "The Arthonialean challenge: Restructuring Arthoniaceae". Taxon. 63 (4): 727–744. doi:10.12705/634.20.
  5. ^ Ertz, Damien; Miadlikowska, Jolanta; Lutzoni, François; Dessein, Steven; Raspé, Olivier; Vigneron, Nathalie; Hofstetter, Valérie; Diederich, Paul (2009). "Towards a new classification of the Arthoniales (Ascomycota) based on a three-gene phylogeny focussing on the genus Opegrapha". Mycological Research. 113 (1): 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2008.09.002. PMID 18929650.
  6. ^ Ertz, Damien; Tehler, Anders (2010). "The phylogeny of Arthoniales (Pezizomycotina) inferred from nucLSU and RPB2 sequences". Fungal Diversity. 49 (1): 47–71. doi:10.1007/s13225-010-0080-y. S2CID 19367958.
  7. ^ a b c d Ertz, Damien (2020). "New insights into the systematics and phylogeny of the genus Fouragea (Arthoniales, Opegraphaceae)". Phytotaxa. 472 (2): 184–192. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.472.2.8. S2CID 229502496.
  8. ^ Xue, Xian-Dong; Jiang, Shu-Hua; Ren, Qiang (2023). "Fouragea gyrophorica sp. nov. from China, with morphological and phylogenetic evidence". The Bryologist. 126 (2): 167–173. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-126.2.167. S2CID 258127412.