Topeliopsis
Template:Short description Template:Automatic taxobox
Topeliopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.
Taxonomy
The genus Topeliopsis was established in 2000 by the lichenologists Gintaras Kantvilas and Antonín Vězda as part of their studies on the lichen family Thelotremataceae in Tasmania. The genus name, which contains the Greek "-opsis", alludes to its superficial resemblance to the lichen genus Topelia.[1]
Topeliopsis was created to accommodate those members of Thelotremataceae that possess certain distinctive characteristics:[1]
- Template:Lichengloss or somewhat immersed apothecia (the disc-shaped reproductive structures)
- Template:Lichengloss growth form (flask-shaped structures that open by a small pore)
- Template:Lichengloss excipulum (a cup-like structure surrounding the reproductive tissue)
- deeply Template:Lichengloss disc (a deeply concave, pitcher-shaped reproductive surface)
- markedly thickened young asci (the sac-like structures containing spores)
- large, thin-walled, Template:Lichengloss ascospores that turn reddish in iodine
The genus is closely related to both Chroodiscus and Pseudoramonia, but differs from Chroodiscus by having a concave disc rather than a plane one, and by possessing a cupular (cup-shaped) rather than ring-like Template:Lichengloss. While Pseudoramonia shares the perithecioid apothecia with a cupular excipulum, it differs by having Template:Lichengloss (stalked) apothecia and transversely septate spores that do not react with iodine.[1]
When first circumscribed, Topeliopsis included three species:[1]
- T. muscicola (the type species) – endemic to Tasmania and New Zealand
- T. rugosa – endemic to Tasmania
- T. toensbargii – found in the Pacific Northwest of North America
Species
- Topeliopsis acutispora Kalb (2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] – Australia
- Topeliopsis athallina Lumbsch & Mangold (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
- Topeliopsis azorica (P.James & Purvis) Coppins & Aptroot (2008)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[4]
- Topeliopsis corticola Kalb (2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] – Australia
- Topeliopsis decorticans (Müll.Arg.) Frisch & Kalb (2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Topeliopsis elixii Frisch & Kalb (2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Topeliopsis fatiscens Kantvilas (2020)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[6]
- Topeliopsis globosa Aptroot (2002)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[7]
- Topeliopsis guaiquinimae (Sipman) Rivas Plata & Mangold (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[8]
- Topeliopsis juniperina van den Boom & Sipman (2023)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[9]
- Topeliopsis kantvilasii Mangold & Lumbsch (2009)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[10]
- Topeliopsis lomatiae (Messuti, Lumbsch & Vězda) Messuti & Mangold (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". [11]
- Topeliopsis macrocarpa (C.W.Dodge) Mangold (2009)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[10]
- Topeliopsis monospora (Aptroot) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[8]
- Topeliopsis muscigena (Stizenb.) Kalb (2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] – Australia
- Topeliopsis novae-zelandiae (Szatala) Lumbsch & Mangold (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
- Topeliopsis patagonica Mangold & Lumbsch (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
- Topeliopsis subdenticulata (Zahlbr.) Frisch & Kalb (2006)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Topeliopsis subtuberculifera Weerakoon, Jayalal & Lücking (2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[12]
- Topeliopsis tuberculifera (Vain.) Rivas Plata & Mangold (2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[8]
- Topeliopsis vezdae Kalb (2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] – Australia
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".