Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Sareomycetes
Ordo: Sareales
Familia: Sareaceae
Genus: Sarea
Species: S. difformis – S. resinae
Name
Sarea Fr., 1825
Type Species: Sarea difformis (Fr.) Fr., 1828
Life habit: Non-lichenized fungi, saprobic.
References
Primary references
Fr., Syst. Orb. Veg. 1: 86 (1825).
Fries, E. (1825) Systema Orbis Vegetabilis. Primas lineas novae constrictionis periclitatur Elias Fries. Pars I. Plantae homonemeae. Lundae. 1-369(-374) pp. [1] (12.67 MB)
Additional references
Hawksworth, D.L. and Sherwood, M.A. (1981) A reassessment of three widespread resinicolous Discomycetes. Canad. J. Bot. 59: 357–372.
Nash III, T.H. (2007) Sarea (pp. 296-297) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages.
Beimforde, C., Schmidt, A.R., Rikkinen, J. and Mitchell, J.K., 2020. Sareomycetes cl. nov.: A new proposal for placement of the resinicolous genus Sarea (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 6: 25-37. DOI: 10.3114/fuse.2020.06.02
Links
Index Fungorum: IF 4864
MycoBank: MB 4864
USDA Plants Database
Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index
Vernacular names
English: Sarea lichen
Sarea is a genus of small, non-lichenized, inoperculate[1] discomycete fungi in the family Zythiaceae.[2][3] Sarea species are found growing on the resin of conifers in the Cupressaceae and Pinaceae in the northern hemisphere.[1] The genus contains two easily distinguishable Species: apothecia of Sarea difformis are black, while those of Sarea resinae are orange in color.[1]
Species
Sarea difformis
Sarea resinae
References
Hawksworth DL, Sherwood MA. (1981). "A reassessment of three widespread resinicolous discomycetes". Canadian Journal of Botany. 59 (3): 357–372. doi:10.1139/b81-049.
Beimforde C, Schmidt AR, Rikkinen J, Mitchell JK. (2020). "Sareomycetes cl. nov.: A new proposal for placement of the resinicolous genus Sarea (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina)". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 6: 25–37. doi:10.3114/fuse.2020.06.02. hdl:10138/317218. PMC 7451776. PMID 32904095.
Mitchell JK, Quijada L. (2020). "(2762) Proposal to conserve the name Cytospora resinae (Zythia resinae) with a conserved type (Ascomycota)". Taxon. 69 (5): 1102–1103. doi:10.3158/1557.1. S2CID 86529508.
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