Acanthotrema

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For the trematode genus of the same name, see Acanthotrema (flatworm).

Acanthotrema
Closeup of the white isidia characteristic of Acanthotrema alboisidiatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Acanthotrema
Frisch (2006)
Type species
Acanthotrema brasilianum
) Frisch (2006)

Acanthotrema is a

montane environments.[3]

Description

Acanthotrema has a grey-olive thallus with a dense, prosoplectenchymatous cortex that can occasionally split. The apothecia are erumpent, taking on angular-rounded to lobate (chroodiscoid) forms, with a visible disc and a margin that is lobulate and merged. Acanthotrema lacks a columella, and its excipulum has a paraplectenchymatous, uncarbonized structure. Spinulose-tipped periphysoids are present, as are unbranched paraphyses with spinulose tips.[3]

The ascospores of Acanthotrema range from septate to muriform and come in shapes ranging from fusiform to ellipsoid, with thin septa and rectangular lumina. They are non-amyloid. This lichen genus does not contain any secondary chemical compounds.[3]

Characteristics that differentiate Acanthotrema apart from other genera that possess similar fruiting structures are its chroodiscoid apothecia, spinulose periphysoids, and paraphyses. Ascospores in Acanthotrema have notably thin walls, a characteristic shared only with the genus Chroodiscus. However, Chroodiscus does not have periphysoids, possesses paraphyses with smooth apices, and is strictly foliicolous (leaf dwelling). While certain Chapsa species, such as C. astroidea, may bear a resemblance to Acanthotrema due to the similarity in apothecia and the near-thin-walled, non-amyloid ascospores, these taxa consistently have paraphyses with smooth apices.[3]

Species

Species Fungorum accepts six species of Acanthotrema:[4]

References

  1. ^ "Acanthotrema". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  2. ISBN 978-3-443-58071-1
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  4. ^ "Acanthotrema - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  5. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.14
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  6. S2CID 84591718
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  7. ^ Aptroot, A.; Feuerstein, S. (2020). "New Graphidaceae from South and Central Brazil". Archive for Lichenology. 16: 1–10.
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