Aptrootia

Aptrootia is a genus of fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has three species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Robert Lücking and Harrie Sipman in 2007, with Aptrootia terricola assigned as the type species. This species, originally described by Dutch mycologist André Aptroot as a species of Thelenella,[2] is known from Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica.[3] Later molecular work showed that the species did not belong in Thelenella (Aptroot himself had expressed doubt about this generic placement), but rather, in the Trypetheliaceae, with a sister taxon relationship to a branch including Bathelium and a lineage containing Trypethelium floridanum. The new genus name honours Aptroot, "in recognition of his numerous contributions to tropical lichenology".[3]

Aptrootia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Trypetheliales
Family: Trypetheliaceae
Genus: Aptrootia
Lücking & Sipman (2007)
Type species
Aptrootia terricola
(Aptroot) Lücking, Umaña & Chaves (2007)
Species

A. elatior
A. robusta
A. terricola

Species in genus Aptrootia have completely immersed perithecia with a brown-black ostiolar region. This is surrounded by a white, cartilaginous thallus reminiscent of those in family Gomphillaceae.[3]

Species
  • Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot (2009)[4] – Australia
  • Aptrootia robusta (P.M.McCarthy & Kantvilas) Aptroot (2009)[4] – Australia
  • Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, L.Umaña & Chaves (2007) – Papua New Guinea; Costa Rica

References
  1. 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. S2CID 249054641.
  2. Aptroot, André (1999). "Thelenella terricola, a new saprobic ascomycete from upland Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 2: 43–46.
  3. Lücking, Robert; Sipman, Harrie J.M.; Umaña, Loengrin; Chaves, Jose-Luis; Lumbsch, H.Thorsten (2007). "Aptrootia (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for Thelenella terricola". The Lichenologist. 39 (2): 187–193. doi:10.1017/s0024282907006445. S2CID 86493022.
  4. Aptroot, A. (2009). Trypetheliales. Flora of Australia. Vol. 57. pp. 535–552. ISBN 978-0-643-09665-3.
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