Pyrenula Ach.
Details
Pyrenula Ach., Syn. Meth. Lich. 117 (1814)
Pyrenula Ach.
Biostatus
Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Widespread, pantremperate, pantropical, corticolous genus comprising some 200 species; 12 species recorded her.
Nomenclature
Ach.
Ach.
1814
117
ICN
genus
Pyrenula
Classification
Subordinates
- Pyrenula anomala
- Pyrenula chlorospila
- Pyrenula cinereoglauca
- Pyrenula citriformis
- Pyrenula concatervans
- Pyrenula consociata
- Pyrenula crassescens
- Pyrenula cyrtospora
- Pyrenula dealbata
- Pyrenula deliquescens
- Pyrenula deprimens
- Pyrenula dermatodes
- Pyrenula filiformis
- Pyrenula homalisma
- Pyrenula howeana
- Pyrenula knightiana
- Pyrenula kunthii
- Pyrenula leucostoma
- Pyrenula leucotrypa
- Pyrenula mamillana
- Pyrenula mastoidea
- Pyrenula microcarpa
- Pyrenula moniliformis
- Pyrenula nitida
- Pyrenula nitidula
- Pyrenula occulta
- Pyrenula prostrata
- Pyrenula pseudonitidella
- Pyrenula pyrenastroides
- Pyrenula pyrenuloides
- Pyrenula quassiicola
- Pyrenula ravenelii
- Pyrenula sexlocularis
- Pyrenula straminescens
- Pyrenula subumbilicata
- Pyrenula subvariolosa
- Pyrenula thelomorpha
Synonyms
Associations
Descriptions
Thallus crustose, smooth, shining, ± varnish-like. Photobiont green, . Ascocarps in form of pseudothecia, united in a ± rounded stroma, separated by thin lateral walls and with a common upper wall. Pseudoparaphyses indistinct. Ascospores brown, 1-septate to several-septate, oval-ellipsoid, 8 per ascus.
Pyrenula Ach.
Thallus crustose, epi- or endophloeodal, whitish, greyish, pale greenish-olive, yellow-olive to ochraceous, sometimes spotted with pigmentation, shining or matt, some species with scattered, minute, maculae (×10 lens), ± effigurate, often delimited by a thin black, irregular prothallus. Photobiont green, . Ascocarps scattered or crowded, solitary or 2-3-confluent, immersed to ± emergent, globose, subglobose or ± flattened, ascocarp wall composed of an outer, generally carbonised involucrellum and an inner brownish exciple, some species columellate. Ostiole apical, vertical, to marginal and ± horizontal, depressed to papillate. Interthecial hyphae persistent, not or rarely branched, not anastomosing, 1-2 µm thick, septate. Asci cylindrical-clavate to clavate, bitunicate. Ascospores becoming ± brown, 3-septate (rarely to 7-septate), thick walled, oblong-ellipsoid, biseriate, rarely uniseriate, 8 per ascus.
Taxonomic concepts
Pyrenastrum Eschw.
Pyrenula Ach.
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1 January 2000
28 June 2010