Pyrenula cruentata
in Cuba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Pyrenulales
Family: Pyrenulaceae
Genus: Pyrenula
Species:
P. cruentata
Binomial name
Pyrenula cruentata
(Müll.Arg.) R.C.Harris (1987)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bottaria cruentata Müll.Arg. (1885)

Pyrenula cruentata is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Pyrenulaceae. The lichen, characterized by its crimson-colored thallus and perithecial warts,[2] has a neotropical distribution.[3]

The lichen was first formally described in 1885 by Swiss botanist Johannes Müller Argoviensis as Bottaria cruentata.[4] Richard Harris transferred it to the genus Pyrenula in 1987.[5]

In northern North America, where its distribution in the United States is limited to southern Florida, it is commonly known as the bark rash lichen. It occurs on the bark of hardwood trees in hammocks and woodlands.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Synonymy. Current Name: Pyrenula cruentata (Müll. Arg.) R.C. Harris, in Egan, Bryologist 90(2): 164 (1987)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 612–613. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.
  3. ↑ Aptroot, André (2011). "A world key to the species of Anthracothecium and Pyrenula". The Lichenologist. 44 (1): 5–53. doi:10.1017/s0024282911000624.
  4. ↑ Müller, J. (1885). "Pyrenocarpeae Cubenses a cl. C. Wright lectae". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (in German). 6: 375–421 [395].
  5. ↑ Egan, Robert S. (1987). "A fifth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada". The Bryologist. 90 (2): 77–173 [164]. doi:10.2307/3242609. JSTOR 3242609.


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