Bacidia

Bacidia
	Herbarium specimen of Bacidia schweinitzii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Ramalinaceae
Genus:	Bacidia; De Not.
Type species
	Bacidia rosella; (Pers.) De Not.

Bacidia is a lichenized genus of fungi in the family Ramalinaceae. The genus was first described by Giuseppe De Notaris in 1846. Species in the genus are crust-like lichens with stemless apothecia; they have green algae (chloroccoid) as photobionts. Their asci have 8 colorless, cylindrical to acicular, multiseptate spores, with curved and thread-like conidia.^[2]

References

^ De Notaris G. (1846). "Frammenti lichenografici di un lavoro inedito". Giornale botanico Italiano (in Italian). 2 (1): 174–224.
^ "BACIDIA De Not". Lichens of the Ozarks. Retrieved 2009-10-21.

Gallery

Cross section of an apothecium of B. schweinitzii, photographed through a compound microscope (x1000), showing a green epihymenium and a dark reddish brown hypothecium
Acicular spore of B. schweinitzii, 65 x 6 micrometres, photographed through a compound microscope, x1000

External links

Bacidia at Index Fungorum

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[1] De Notaris G. (1846). "Frammenti lichenografici di un lavoro inedito". Giornale botanico Italiano (in Italian). 2 (1): 174–224.

[2] "BACIDIA De Not". Lichens of the Ozarks. Retrieved 2009-10-21.

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