Arthoniales

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The Arthoniales is the second largest order of mainly crustose lichens, but fruticose lichens are present as well.[1] The order contains around 1500 species,[2] while the largest order with lichenized fungi, the Lecanorales, contains more than 14000 species.[3]

Classification

The Arthoniales is one of two orders of the class Arthoniomycetes within the phylum Ascomycota.[2] The order includes seven families (Andreiomycetaceae,[4] Arthoniaceae, Chrysotrichaceae, Lecanographaceae, Opegraphaceae, Roccellaceae and Roccellographaceae).[2] Lecanographaceae, Roccellographaceae, Opegraphaceae and Roccellaceae are well-supported families within Arthoniales, and they were circumscribed in 2011.[5] Andreiomycetaceae was described as a new family by Hodkinson and Lendemer in 2013.[4]

The Arthoniales is the sister group to Dothideomycetes.[6]

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Figure 1. Cladogram of the Arthoniales, rooted with Curvularia brachyspora, Cudonia circinans and Seynesia erumpens as the outgroup. The cladogram shows the division of Arthoniales into seven families, based on Hodkinson et al. 2013.[4]

Distribution and habitats

The Arthoniales is distributed in most habitats worldwide, as it ranges at latitudes from arctic to tropical regions.[2] They grow on different types of substrates like bark, wood, rocks, bryophytes and living leaves. The order has adapted to live in both humid forests and dry habitats like savannas and steppes, as well as varying altitudes from sea level to alpine regions.[7] The highest species diversity are known from subtropical coastal areas with a Mediterranean or dry climate.[8][9] The species diversity of the Arthoniales is expected to be higher than currently reported from several areas worldwide like the tropical rain forests.[2]

Ecology

The majority of species in Arthoniales have a lichenized lifestyle, but lichenicolous and saprophytic species are presented as well.[10] The original state in the Arthoniales is believed to be the lichenized state, and the non-lichenized and parasitic states have evolved independently several times.[11] The lichenized fungi live in symbiosis with a photobiont that in most cases is a species of Trentepohliaceae, but photobionts from Chlorococcaleae are known from Chrysotrichaceae and a few species in Arthonia.[12]

Characters

It is difficult to mention typical morphological characters like fruit body, exiple, hypothecium, hymenium, chemistry, ascospore color and ascospore septation that can be used as uniting traits for delimiting families and genera in the Arthoniales. The reason is that the Arthoniales is an old order and taxa have evolved in parallel for a long time, which gives a high level of homoplasy.[5]

Ascomatal anatomy

The ascomata are usually apothecial and it produces bitunicate asci. The bitunicate asci are thick-walled, with an outer and inner layer. The outer and inner layer of the ascus wall are called exotunica and endotunica, and they separate during ascospore release.[6] The asci usually contains eight ascospores, while the shape and separation of the ascospores are more variating.[13]

Thallus

The majority of the species in Arthoniales are crustose lichens, with a thallus growing tight to the surface. Fruticose lichens have a bushy thallus and are known in Roccellaceae, where it has evolved and been lost multiple times.[14] The thalli among crustose lichens can either grow within the substrate, called Template:Lichengloss or it can grow at the surface of the substrate, called epiphloedal.[13]

Genera incertae sedis

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Bactrospora brevispora, shown here growing on a cypress stump, is one of many taxa of uncertain familial placement in the Arthoniales.

The following genera have been tentatively classified in the Arthoniales but have not been placed with any certainty into a family.[15]

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  • Arthophacopsis Hafellner (1998)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Bactrospora A.Massal. (1852)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 35 spp.
  • Bryostigma Poelt & Döbbeler (1979)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 3 spp.
  • Catarraphia A.Massal. (1860)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Felipes Frisch & G.Thor (2014)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Glyphopsis Aptroot (2014)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Gossypiothallon Aptroot (2014)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Helminthocarpon Fée (1837)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 3 spp.
  • Hormosphaeria Lév. (1863)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Minksia Müll.Arg. (1882)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 2 spp.
  • Nipholepis Syd. (1935)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Paradoxomyces Matzer (1996)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Perigrapha Hafellner (1996)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 5 spp.
  • Phacothecium Trevis. (1857)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Phoebus R.C.Harris & Ladd (2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Sporostigma Grube (2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Synarthonia Müll.Arg. (1891)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 5 spp.
  • Synarthothelium Sparrius (2009)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 2 spp.
  • Tarbertia Dennis (1974)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Trichophyma Rehm (1905)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 2 spp.
  • Tylophorella Vain. (1890)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.
  • Wegea Aptroot & Tibell (1997)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1 sp.

References

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