Staurothele pulvinata

Staurothele pulvinata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Verrucariales
Family:	Verrucariaceae
Genus:	Staurothele
Species:	S. pulvinata
Binomial name
	Staurothele pulvinata; (Th.Fr.) Heiðm. (2017)
Synonyms
	Endocarpon pulvinatum Th.Fr. (1861); Dermatocarpon pulvinatum (Th.Fr.) Körb. (1863); Polyblastia pulvinata (Th.Fr.) Jatta (1900); Cornicularia mirabilis Lynge (1940); Pyrenothamnia spraguei Tuck. (1883); Endocarpon tortuosum Herre (1911);

Staurothele pulvinata is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), squamulose lichen in the family Verrucariaceae.^[3] The lichen was first formally described in 1861 by Theodor Magnus Fries, as a member of genus Endocarpon. The type specimen was collected from northern Norway.^[4] The taxon was later transferred to Dermatocarpon by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1863,^[5] and to Polyblastia by Antonio Jatta in 1900.^[6] Starri Heiðmarsson moved it to Staurothele in 2017, based on molecular phylogenetic analysis that showed it belonged to that genus. It is one of few squamulose species in a genus comprising mostly crustose lichens. Staurothele pulvinata has an arctic-alpine distribution; it has been recorded from Europe, Greenland, Iceland, and the United States.^[2]

References

^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Staurothele pulvinata (Th. Fr.) Heiðm., in Heiðmarsson, Gueidan, Miadlikowska & Lutzoni, Phytotaxa 306(1): 45 (2017)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
^ ^a ^b heiðmarsson, Starri; Gueidan, Cécile; Miadlikowska, Jolanta; Lutzoni, françois (2017). "Multi-locus phylogeny supports the placement of Endocarpon pulvinatum within Staurothele s. str. (lichenised ascomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Verrucariaceae)". Phytotaxa. 306 (1): 37–48. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.306.1.3.
^ "Staurothele pulvinata (Th. Fr.) Heiðm". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
^ Fries, T.M. (1861). "Lichenes arctoi Europae Groenlandiaeque hactenus cogniti". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 3: 103–398 [257].
^ Körber, G.W. (1863). "Parerga lichenologica". Ergänzungen zum Systema lichenum Germaniae (in German). 4: 289–384 [308].
^ Jatta, Antonio (1900). Sylloge Lichenum Italicorum (in Italian). Trani: V. Vecch. p. 562.

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