Lecidella
Lecidella is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Lecanoraceae.
Taxonomy
Lecidella was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855. It was not widely used until more than a century later, when Hannes Hertel recognized it first as a subgenus of Lecidea, and then a couple of year after as a distinct genus.A phylogenetic analysis of the genus using 11 species found that Lecidella species fall into three major clades, which were proposed as three informal groups: Lecidella stigmatea group, L. elaeochroma group and L. enteroleucella group.
Description
Lecidella species have a thallus that is crustose, and, meaning that it resembles the genus Biatora–having a proper exciple, which is not coal-black (, but coloured or blackening. It has eight-spored asci of the Lecidella type. The ascospores are and hyaline, while the conidia are curved and threadlike.Morphologically similar genera include Japewiella, Carbonea, and Tasmidella.
Species
Lecidella was estimated to contain about 80 species in a popular 2008 text, a number that was used in a survey of fungal classification., Species Fungorum accepts 40 species in the genus.- Lecidella aeruginea
- Lecidella anomaloides
- Lecidella asema
- Lecidella aurata
- Lecidella buelliastrum
- Lecidella carpathica
- Lecidella chiricahuana
- Lecidella chodatii
- Lecidella conspurcatosorediosa
- Lecidella destituta
- Lecidella elaeochroma
- Lecidella enteroleucella
- Lecidella euphorea
- Lecidella flavosorediata
- Lecidella flavovirens
- Lecidella fuliginea
- Lecidella granulosula
- Lecidella greenii
- Lecidella iqbalii
- Lecidella laureri
- Lecidella leucomarginata – Australia
- Lecidella mandshurica – Asia
- Lecidella meiococca
- Lecidella meridionalis – Australia
- Lecidella montana
- Lecidella nashiana
- Lecidella occidentalis
- Lecidella oceanica – South Korea
- Lecidella parasitica
- Lecidella patavina
- Lecidella pulveracea
- Lecidella scabra
- Lecidella stigmatea
- Lecidella sublapicida
- Lecidella subviridis – Norway; Sweden
- Lecidella varangrica – Norway
- Lecidella viridans
- Lecidella wulfenii
- Lecidella xylogena
- Lecidella yunnanensis – China