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Fouragea

Fouragea is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae. It has nine species.

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Fouragea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Opegraphaceae
Genus: Fouragea
Trevis. (1880)
Type species
Fouragea filicina
(Mont.) Trevis. (1880)

Fouragea is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae.12 It has nine species.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1880,3 for the species Opegrapha filicina, first described by Camille Montagne. Several features distinguished this lichen from the usual, bark-dwelling Opegrapha species: its slender ascocarps, which are a result of its foliicolous lifestyle, the absence of a dark excipulum at the base, and the preference for Phycopeltis as a photobiont instead of Trentepohlia.

The genus was reinstated in 2014 to contain foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) Opegrapha species, following a molecular phylogenetics-led reorganisation of the order Arthoniales.4 Prior molecular work had already demonstrated that the foliicolous species, O. filicina and O. viridistellata, formed an independent lineage at the base of the Opegraphaceae.56

Species

  • Fouragea alba (Lücking) Ertz (2020)7
  • Fouragea filicina (Mont.) Trevis. (1880)
  • Fouragea gyrophorica – China8
  • Fouragea heliabravoa (Herrera-Camp. & Lücking) Ertz (2020)7
  • Fouragea phyllobia (Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1923)
  • Fouragea puiggarii (Müll.Arg.) Zahlbr. (1923)
  • Fouragea tuxtlensis (Herrera-Camp. & Lücking) Ertz (2020)7
  • Fouragea vegae (R.Sant.) Ertz (2020)7
  • Fouragea viridistellata (Sérus., Lücking & Sparrius) Ertz & Frisch (2014)
References

References

  1. "Fouragea". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. 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 [89]. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.
  3. Trevisan, V.B.A. (1880). "Sulle Garovaglinee, nuovo tribu di Collemacee". Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere Scienze Biologiche (in Italian). 13 (3): 65–77.
  4. Frisch, Andreas; Thor, Göran; Ertz, Damien; Grube, Martin (2014). "The Arthonialean challenge: Restructuring Arthoniaceae". Taxon. 63 (4): 727–744. doi:10.12705/634.20.
  5. Ertz, Damien; Miadlikowska, Jolanta; Lutzoni, François; Dessein, Steven; Raspé, Olivier; Vigneron, Nathalie; Hofstetter, Valérie; Diederich, Paul (2009). "Towards a new classification of the Arthoniales (Ascomycota) based on a three-gene phylogeny focussing on the genus Opegrapha". Mycological Research. 113 (1): 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2008.09.002. PMID 18929650.
  6. Ertz, Damien; Tehler, Anders (2010). "The phylogeny of Arthoniales (Pezizomycotina) inferred from nucLSU and RPB2 sequences". Fungal Diversity. 49 (1): 47–71. doi:10.1007/s13225-010-0080-y. S2CID 19367958.
  7. Ertz, Damien (2020). "New insights into the systematics and phylogeny of the genus Fouragea (Arthoniales, Opegraphaceae)". Phytotaxa. 472 (2): 184–192. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.472.2.8. S2CID 229502496.
  8. Xue, Xian-Dong; Jiang, Shu-Hua; Ren, Qiang (2023). "Fouragea gyrophorica sp. nov. from China, with morphological and phylogenetic evidence". The Bryologist. 126 (2): 167–173. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-126.2.167. S2CID 258127412.