Dimelaena

Dimelaena is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae.[1]:260 Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens,[2] or moonglow lichens.[1]:260 They are placodioid crustose lichens, ranging in form from rimose to areolate.[1] The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.[3]

Dimelaena
Dimelaena oreina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Caliciales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Dimelaena
Norman (1852)
Type species
Dimelaena oreina
(Ach.) Norman (1853)
Synonyms
  • Dimelaena sect. Dimelaena Norman (1852)
  • Beltraminia Trevis. (1857)

Species

  • Dimelaena australiensis H.Mayrhofer & Sheard (1984)
  • Dimelaena elevata Elix, Kalb & Wippel (1996)
  • Dimelaena ewersii Elix (2017)
  • Dimelaena lichenicola K.Knudsen, Sheard, Kocourk. & H.Mayrhofer (2013)
  • Dimelaena mayrhoferiana Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2018)
  • Dimelaena oreina (Ach.) Norman (1852)
  • Dimelaena radiata (Tuck.) Müll.Arg. (1884
  • Dimelaena subsquamulosa Giralt, H.Mayrhofer, van den Boom & Elix (2014)
  • Dimelaena tenuis (Müll.Arg.) H.Mayrhofer & Wippel (1996)
  • Dimelaena triseptata Aptroot (2008)

References

  1. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. Name Search Results for Scientific Name Dimelaena, USDA
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.


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