| Aggregatorygma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Aggregatorygma M.Cáceres, Aptroot & Lücking, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Aggregatorygma triseptatum M.Cáceres, Aptroot & Lücking, 2014
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Aggregatorygma is a small genus of lichenized fungi in the family Graphidaceae.1
It was circumscribed in 2014 by Marcela Cáceres, André Aptroot, and Robert Lücking as a monotypic genus, with Aggregatorygma triseptatum as its only species.23 Two species have since been added: Aggregatorygma submuriforme in 2020 and Aggregatorygma lichexanthonicum in 2022, both by Aptroot.45
The genus name is a combination of two words. Aggregato is from the Latin word meaning "aggregated",6 while rygma is from the Ancient Greek word ρήγμα, meaning "crack".7
Species in the genus are corticolous, growing on the bark of tree trunks in rainforest. All three species were first discovered in Brazil.345
References
References
- Catalogue of Life.
- Index Fungorum.
- Cáceres et al. 2014, p. 89.
- Aptroot & Feuerstein 2020, p. 4.
- Aptroot et al. 2022, p. 435.
- Foster 1890, p. 115.
- Glosbe.
Sources
- "Aggregatorygma". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
- "Aggregatorygma". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
- Aptroot, André & Feuerstein, Shirley (8 January 2020). "New Graphidaceae from South and Central Brazil" (PDF). Archive for Lichenology. 16: 1–10. ISSN 1868-4173.
- Aptroot, André; Fernanda de Souza, Maria; Alves dos Santos, Lidiane; Oliveira Junior, Isaias; Cardoso Barbosa, Bruno Micael & Cáceres da Silva, Marcela Eugenia (Fall 2022). "New species of lichenized fungi from Brazil, with a record report of 492 species in a small area of the Amazon Forest". The Bryologist. 125 (3): 435–467. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-125.3.433. S2CID 251748219.
- Cáceres, Marcela; Aptroot, André; Parnmen, Sittiporn & Lücking, Robert (19 December 2014). "Remarkable diversity of the lichen family Graphidaceae in the Amazon rain forest of Rondônia, Brazil". Phytotaxa. 189 (1): 87–136. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.8.
- Foster, Frank Pierce (1890). An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
- "ρήγμα". Glosbe. Retrieved 15 October 2022.