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Japewiella

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Japewiella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Japewiella
Printzen (2000)
Type species
Japewiella carrollii
(Coppins & P.James) Printzen (2000)
Species

J. carrollii
J. djagensis
J. dollypartoniana
J. pacifica
J. pruinosula
J. tavaresiana
J. variabilis

Japewiella is a genus of lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. It was circumscribed in 2000 by German botanist and lichenologist Christian Printzen as a segregate of the genus Japewia. The genus name of Japewia was in honour of Peter Wilfrid James (1930 - 2014), who was an English botanist (Mycology and Lichenology).[1] The genus was circumscribed by Christian Printzen in Bryologist vol.102 on page 715 in 1999.

The type, Japewiella carrollii, is an oceanic species that occurs in maritime regions of Europe and Macaronesia.[2]

Description

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Japewiella species are crust lichens that grow on bark. They are characterized by their biatorine apothecia, thick-walled, simple ascospores, eight-spored asci with a conspicuous masse axiale (similar to asci found in members of genus Lecidella). They have a well-developed excipulum (a saucer-shaped rim around the hymenium) comprising branched and anastomosing, gelatinized hyphae.[2]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Printzen, Christian (1999). "Japewiella gen. nov., a new lichen genus and a new species from Mexico". The Bryologist. 102 (4): 714–719. doi:10.2307/3244257. JSTOR 3244257.
  3. ^ Allen, Jessica L.; Lendemer, James C. (2015). "Japewiella dollypartoniana, a new widespread lichen in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America". Castanea. 80 (1): 59–65. doi:10.2179/14-036R2. S2CID 85576896. Open access icon
  4. ^ Kantvilas, Gintaras (2011). "The lichen genera Japewia and Japewiella in Australia" (PDF). Muelleria. 29 (2): 99–103. doi:10.5962/p.292516. S2CID 251007803.
  5. ^ Elix, John A.; McCarthy, Patrick M. (2018). "Ten new lichen species (Ascomycota) from Australia" (PDF). Australasian Lichenology. 82: 20–59.