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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Ostropomycetidae
Ordo: Graphidales

Familia: Thelotremataceae
Genus: Nadvornikia
Species: N. diplotylia – N. hawaiiensis – N. sorediata
Name

Nadvornikia Tibell, 1984

Family: Thelotremataceae
References

Tibell, L. (1984) A reappraisal of the taxonomy of Caliciales. - In: H. Hertel & F. Oberwinkler (eds.): Beitrage zur Lichenologie. Festschrift J. Poelt. Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia 79. J. Cramer, Vaduz, pp. 597-713. **[RLL List # 123-108 / Rec.# 18609] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

Pant, G. and Awasthi, D.D. (1989) Caliciales from India and Nepal. - Biovigyanam 15(1): 3–27. **[RLL List # 140 / Rec.# 14182] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

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Vernacular names
English: Nadvornikia lichens

Nadvornikia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.[1] Species in the genus are corticolous (bark-dwelling) and crustose.
Taxonomy

The genus was circumscribed in 1984 by lichenologist Leif Tibell, with N. hawaiensis assigned as the type species. Nadvornikia is a replacement name for Stephanophoron, which was published illegitimately by Czech lichenologist Josef Nádvorník in 1942 (because the fungal genus Stephanophorus already occupied that name).[2] The genus name pays tribute to Nádvorník (1906–1977), the first to recognize the type species of this genus as representing a distinct evolutionary lineage, separate from other similar lichens.[3]
Description

Nadvornikia species have a continuous, epiperidermal thallus. The surface of the thallus can be smooth or uneven, and no prothallus is present. The cortex, which is absent or loosely arranged, features an irregular photobiont layer with Trentepohlia green algal cells and calcium oxalate crystals. The medulla is endoperidermal (located within the periderm. Vegetative propagules in Nadvornikia lichens may be absent or present as soredia. The ascomata are rounded and can be either immersed or sessile, with or without a mazaedium. The proper margin may be entire or fissured, while the thalline margin is always entire. The excipulum is prosoplectenchymatous and entire, while the columella is absent. The hypothecium is also prosoplectenchymatous and hyaline. The hymenium is hyaline and clear, while the epithecium can be thin or indistinct.[4]

The paraphyses are unbranched and have smooth tips, with no periphysoids present. The asci are fusiform, and each contains eight ascospores. These ascospores can be either hyaline or dark brown, 1-septate to somewhat muriform, distoseptate, and non-amyloid. Conidiomata have not been observed in Nadvornikia lichens.[4]

The secondary chemistry of Nadvornikia lichens includes stictic acid and various related lichen substances.[4]
Species

As of March 2023, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts three species of Nadvornikia;[1] an additional two species have been formally described and published.

Nadvornikia diplotylia (Nyl.) G.Pant & D.D.Awasthi (1989)
Nadvornikia expallescens (Nyl.) I.Medeiros, Lücking & Lumbsch (2017)[4]
Nadvornikia hawaiensis (Tuck.) Tibell (1984)
Nadvornikia peninsulae (R.C.Harris) I.Medeiros, Lücking & Lumbsch (2017)[4]
Nadvornikia sorediata R.C.Harris (1990)

References

"Nadvornikia". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
Tibell, L. (1984). "A reappraisal of the taxonomy of Caliciales". Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 79: 597–713 [672].
Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.
Medeiros, Ian D.; Kraichak, Ekaphan; Lücking, Robert; Mangold, Armin; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2017). "Assembling a taxonomic monograph of tribe Wirthiotremateae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae)". Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences. 9: 1–31. doi:10.3158/2158-5520-16.9.1. S2CID 90460213.

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