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Jasonhuria
''Jasonhuria'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It is monotypic, containing only the species ''Jasonhuria bogilana''. This species is a saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen that occurs in South Korea. Taxonomy The type specimen of the lichen species was collected in South Jeolla Province within Wando County, on Bogil Island. It was found at a low elevation, just above sea level, growing on a rock. Yogesh Joshi and Jae-Seoun Hur formally described this lichen in 2010; they classified it as a member of genus ''Caloplaca''. In 2015, Sergey Kondratyuk, László Lőkös, and Soon-Ok Oh proposed genus ''Jasonhuria'' because molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that ''Caloplaca bogilana'' formed a clade with the genus '' Loekoesia'', albeit with weak support. This led to the decision to establish two separate monotypic genera. The authors also noted that additional preliminary analyses had identified numerous previously unrecognised species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loekoesia
''Loekoesia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae. It contains three species of saxicolous lichen, saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens. Collectively, the genus occurs in South Korea, Mauritius, and the United States. The genus is distinguished by its grey, crust-like thallus, which can be either whole or divided into patch-like segments. ''Loekoesia'' lichens have bright white, rounded soralia, which produce bluish to whitish powdery propagules (soredia) and are arranged in irregular groups on the thallus. Taxonomy ''Loekoesia'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed as a new genus in 2015 by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Soon-Ok Oh, and Jae-Seoun Hur. The type species, ''Loekoesia austrocoreana'', was shown with molecular phylogenetics to form a clade with ''Jasonhuria'', another genus in the subfamily Caloplacoideae that was also circumscribed in the same publication. It was initially the sole species in the then monotypic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |