Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Dothideomycetes
Ordo: Trypetheliales
Familia: Trypetheliaceae
Genus: Aptrootia
Species: A. elatior – A. robusta – A. terricola
Name
Aptrootia Lücking & Sipman, 2007
Family: Trypetheliaceae
Type Species: Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, Umaña & Chaves, 2007
Etymology: Named to honor the Dutch lichenologist, André Aptroot
References
Primary references
Lücking & Sipman, in Lücking, Sipman, Umaña, Chaves & Lumbsch, Lichenologist 39(2): 188 (2007)
Lücking, R.; Sipman, H.J.M.; Umaña, L.; Chaves, J.L. and Lumbsch, H.T. (2007) Aptrootia (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for Thelenella terricola. - Lichenologist 39(2): 187–193. **[RLL List # 206 / Rec.# 28973] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (DOI: 10.1017/S0024282907006445)
Selected reference
André Aptroot [From Flora of Australia volume 57 (2009)] Discussion of the genus Aptrootia.
Links
Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
Aptrootia in Index Fungorum.
Aptrootia in MycoBank.
Vernacular names
Aptrootia is a genus of fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has three species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Robert Lücking and Harrie Sipman in 2007, with Aptrootia terricola assigned as the type species. This species, originally described by Dutch mycologist André Aptroot as a species of Thelenella,[2] is known from Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica.[3] Later molecular work showed that the species did not belong in Thelenella (Aptroot himself had expressed doubt about this generic placement), but rather, in the Trypetheliaceae, with a sister taxon relationship to a branch including Bathelium and a lineage containing Trypethelium floridanum. The new genus name honours Aptroot, "in recognition of his numerous contributions to tropical lichenology".[3]
Species in genus Aptrootia have completely immersed perithecia with a brown-black ostiolar region. This is surrounded by a white, cartilaginous thallus reminiscent of those in family Gomphillaceae.[3]
Species
Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot (2009)[4] – Australia
Aptrootia robusta (P.M.McCarthy & Kantvilas) Aptroot (2009)[4] – Australia
Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, L.Umaña & Chaves (2007) – Papua New Guinea; Costa Rica
References
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. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2.
Aptroot, André (1999). "Thelenella terricola, a new saprobic ascomycete from upland Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 2: 43–46.
Lücking, Robert; Sipman, Harrie J.M.; Umaña, Loengrin; Chaves, Jose-Luis; Lumbsch, H.Thorsten (2007). "Aptrootia (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for Thelenella terricola". The Lichenologist. 39 (2): 187–193. doi:10.1017/s0024282907006445.
Aptroot, A. (2009). Trypetheliales. Flora of Australia. Vol. 57. pp. 535–552. ISBN 978-0-643-09665-3.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
