Relicina

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Relicina
Relicina eximbricata, in Florida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Relicina
(Hale & Kurok.) Hale (1974)
Type species
Relicina eumorpha
(Hepp) Hale (1974)
Synonyms[1]
  • Parmelia ser. Relicinae Hale & Kurok. (1964)
  • Relicinopsis Elix & Verdon (1986)

Relicina is a genus of foliose lichens belonging to the large family Parmeliaceae. It contains 59 species.[2]

Taxonomy[edit]

Relicina was originally conceived as a series of the large genus Parmelia by lichenologists Mason Hale and Syo Kurokawa in 1964. A decade later, they promoted it to the status of genus.[3]

The genus Relicinopsis, proposed by Australian lichenologists John Elix and Doug Verdon in 1986 as a segregate of Pseudoparmelia,[4] was shown to be nested within Relicina in a 2017 molecular phylogenetics study.[5]

Species[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Relicina (Hale & Kurok.) Hale, Phytologia 28(5): 484 (1974)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  2. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  3. ^ Hale, Mason E. (1974). "Bulbothrix, Parmelina, Relicina and Xanthoparmelia, four new genera in the Parmeliaceae". Phytologia. 28 (5): 479–490.
  4. ^ Elix, J.A.; Johnston, J.; Verdon, D. (1986). "Canoparmelia, Paraparmelia and Relicinopsis, three new genera in the Parmeliaceae (lichenized Ascomycotina)". Mycotaxon. 27: 271–282.
  5. ^ Kirika, Paul M.; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Leavitt, Steven D.; Buaruang, Kawinnat; Crespo, Ana; Mugambi, George; Gatheri, Grace W.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2017). "The genus Relicinopsis is nested within Relicina (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)". The Lichenologist. 49 (3): 189–197. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000748. S2CID 90365571.
  6. ^ a b c Elix, John A.; Johnston, Jen (1988). "New species in the lichen family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycotina) from the southern hemisphere". Mycotaxon. 31 (2): 491–510.