Xanthoria
Xanthoria parietina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Xanthoria
(Fr.) Th.Fr. (1860)
Type species
Xanthoria parietina
(L.) Th.Fr. (1860)
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
List
  • Parmelia subdiv. Xanthoria Fr. (1825)
  • Blasteniospora Trevis. (1853)
  • Dufouria Trevis. (1861)
  • Nylanderiella Hue (1914)
  • Parmocarpus Trevis. (1861)
  • Placodium Weber ex F.H.Wigg. (1780)
  • Pycnothele Sommerf. (1826)
  • Rusavskia S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2003)
  • Siphonia Fr. (1820)
  • Siphula Fr. (1824)
  • Xanthoriomyces E.A.Thomas ex Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] Common names include orange lichen,[3] orange wall lichen,[4]:134 and sunburst lichen.[4]:134 They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".

Species

As of October 2023, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 19 species of Xanthoria.[5]

  • Xanthoria aureola (Ach.) Erichsen (1930)
  • Xanthoria calcicola Oxner (1937)
  • Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria ectaneoides (Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1931)
  • Xanthoria hypogymnioides S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria ibizaensis S.Y.Kondr. & A.S.Kondr. (2020)
  • Xanthoria juniperina S.Y.Kondr. (2013)
  • Xanthoria kangarooensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)
  • Xanthoria lapalmaensis Schumm & S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th.Fr. (1860) – common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen, shore lichen[6]
  • Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013)
  • Xanthoria rutilans (Ach.) S.Y.Kondr. (2002)
  • Xanthoria schummii S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria splendidula (Zahlbr.) Makryĭ (2007)
  • Xanthoria ulophyllodes Räsänen (1931) – powdery sunburst lichen[6]
  • Xanthoria whinrayi S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria yorkensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)

The taxa Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007) and Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013) were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication.[7] The taxon once known as Xanthoria elegans is now Rusavskia elegans, the type species of genus Rusavskia.[8]

References

  1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Xanthoria (Fr.) Th. Fr., Lich. arct. (Uppsala): 66 (1860)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
  3. Xanthoria. USDA PLANTS.
  4. 1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  5. "Xanthoria". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. 1 2 Waleski Joe (2007). Lichens of the North Woods Duluth, MN: Kollath+Stensaas
  7. Tsurykau, Andrei; Bely, Pavel; Arup, Ulf (2020). "Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal two new synonyms of Xanthoria parietina". Plant and Fungal Systematics. 65 (2): 620–623. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0033.
  8. Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.


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