Pyrenula ochraceoflava

Pyrenula ochraceoflava is a species of corticolous, crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. It is a common lowland and coastal species with a pantropical distribution.[2] Its distribution in the Pacific Ocean includes the Caroline Islands, Galápagos Islands, New Caledonia, Tuamotu, and Western Samoa.[3] The lichen was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1858 as a species of Verrucaria.[4] Richard Harris transferred it to the genus Pyrenula in 1989.[5] The variety pacifica, found on the Cook Islands (South Pacific Ocean) was proposed by Patrick McCarthy in 2000. It is distinguished from the nominate variety by its pigmented thallus and perithecia, ascospore size and shape, and the presence of a single transverse septum in its ascospores.[3]

Pyrenula ochraceoflava
on Santa Fe Island (Galápagos);
scale bar = 0.3 mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Pyrenulales
Family: Pyrenulaceae
Genus: Pyrenula
Species:
P. ochraceoflava
Binomial name
Pyrenula ochraceoflava
(Nyl.) R.C.Harris (1989)
Synonyms[1]
  • Verrucaria ochraceoflava Nyl. (1858)
  • Sporodictyon ochraceoflavum (Nyl.) Trevis. (1860)
  • Verrucaria ochraceoflavens Nyl. (1863)
  • Anthracothecium ochraceoflavens (Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1921)
  • Bottaria ochraceoflavens (Nyl.) Vain. (1915)
  • Pyrenula ochraceoflavens (Nyl.) R.C.Harris (1989)
  • Pyrenula ochraceoflava var. pacifica P.M.McCarthy (2000)

See also

References
  1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Pyrenula ochraceoflava (Nyl.) R.C. Harris, Mem. N. Y. bot. Gdn 49: 96 (1989)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. Aptroot, André (2011). "A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula". The Lichenologist. 44 (1): 5–53 [25]. doi:10.1017/s0024282911000624.
  3. McCarthy, P.M. (2000). "The lichens of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific Ocean I: pyrenocarpous taxa". The Lichenologist. 32 (1): 15–47. doi:10.1006/lich.1999.0212.
  4. Nylander, W. (1858). Expositio synoptica Pyrenocarpeorum (in Latin). Cosnier et Lachèse. p. 50.
  5. Harris, D.C. (1989). "A sketch of the family Pyrenulaceae (Melanommatales) in eastern North America". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 49: 74–107 [96].


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