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Robert Lücking
Robert Lücking (born 1964) is a German lichenologist. He is a leading expert on foliicolous lichens–lichens that live on leaves. Life and career Born in Ulm in 1964, Lücking earned both his master's (1990) and PhD degree (1994) at the University of Ulm. Both degrees concerned the taxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity of foliicolous lichens. His graduate supervisor was mycologist and bryologist Sieghard Winkler, who had previously studied epiphyllous (upper leaf-dwelling) fungi in El Salvador and Colombia. In 1996 Lücking was awarded the Mason E. Hale award for an "outstanding doctoral thesis presented by a candidate on a lichenological theme". His thesis was titled ''Foliikole Flechten und ihre Mikrohabitatpraferenzen in einem tropischen Regenwald in Costa Rica'' ("Foliicolous lichens and their microhabitat preferences in a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica"). In this work, Lücking recorded 177 foliicolous lichen species from the shrub layer in a Costa Rican tropical forest. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Museum Of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, and its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections. The permanent exhibitions, which attract up to two million visitors annually, include fossils, current cultures from around the world, and interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field, the department-store magnate. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair. The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evolution Of Fungi
The evolution of fungi has been going on since fungi diverged from other life around 1.5 billion years ago, with the glomaleans branching from the "higher fungi" (dikaryans) at ~, according to DNA analysis. (Schüssler et al., 2001; Tehler et al., 2000) Fungi probably colonized the land during the Cambrian, over , (Taylor & Osborn, 1996), and possibly 635 million years ago during the Ediacaran, but terrestrial fossils only become uncontroversial and common during the Devonian, . __TOC__ Early evolution Evidence from DNA analysis suggests that all fungi are descended from a most recent common ancestor that lived at least 1.2 to 1.5 billion years ago. It is probable that these earliest fungi lived in water, and had flagella. However, a 2.4-billion-year-old basalt from the Palaeoproterozoic Ongeluk Formation in South Africa containing filamentous fossils in vescicles and fractures, that form mycelium-like structures may push back the origin of the Kingdom over one billion yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalbographa Lueckingii
''Kalbographa lueckingii'' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in southeastern Brazil, it was formally described as a new species in 2009 by Klaus Kalb. The type specimen was collected between Taubaté and Ubatuba (in the Serra do Mar) at an elevation of ; there, in a more or less virgin tropical rainforest, it was found growing on the smooth bark of an old deciduous tree in the shade. It is only known from the type collection. The species epithet honours lichenologist Robert Lücking, "for his outstanding contributions to tropical lichenology". The lichen has a smooth, pale olive-green thallus. It contains stictic acid as a major lichen product, and minor amounts of constictic acid Constictic acid is a chemical compound of the depsidone class. It was first isolated in 1968 from lichen of the genus ''Usnea''. It has since been found in many other lichen genera including ''Menegazzia'', '' Crespoa'', and ''Xanth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypotrachyna Lueckingii
''Hypotrachyna lueckingii'' is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ..., it was described as new to science in 2011. References lueckingii Lichen species Lichens described in 2011 Lichens of Central America Taxa named by Harrie Sipman {{Parmeliaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphis Lueckingii . ''Graphis lueckingii'' shares ...
''Graphis lueckingii'' is a species of script lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in southern Brazil, it was fornally described as a new species in 2010 by Manuela Dal-Forno and Sionara Eliasaro. The type specimen was collected by the first author in the Pontal do Paraná, where it was found growing on bark in a forest restinga. The species epithet honours lichenologist Robert Lücking. ''Graphis lueckingii'' can be identified by its sorediate thallus, prominent featuring thin and complete thalline margins, a distinct clear hymenium, completely excipulum, small ascospores that are trans-septate and range from 20 to 23 µm in length, and the presence of norstictic acid Norstictic acid is a depsidone produced as a secondary metabolites in lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterographa Lueckingii
''Enterographa'' is a genus of lichens in the family Roccellaceae. Species , Species Fungorum accepts 62 species of ''Enterographa''. *'' Enterographa albopunctata'' *'' Enterographa aldabrensis'' *'' Enterographa bagliettoae'' *'' Enterographa bella'' *'' Enterographa bengalensis'' *'' Enterographa bradleyana'' – United States *'' Enterographa brezhonega'' *'' Enterographa caudata'' – United States *'' Enterographa chiodectonoides'' *'' Enterographa compunctula'' *'' Enterographa confusa'' *'' Enterographa crassa'' *'' Enterographa cretacea'' – Australia *'' Enterographa deslooveri'' – Papua New Guinea *'' Enterographa diederichiana'' – Zambia *'' Enterographa divergens'' *'' Enterographa elaborata'' *'' Enterographa elixii'' *'' Enterographa epigraphis'' *'' Enterographa epiphylla'' *'' Enterographa falcata'' *'' Enterographa fellhaneroides'' *'' Enterographa glaucotremoides'' *'' Enterographa hainanensis'' *'' Enterographa hutchinsiae'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dictyomeridium Lueckingii
''Dictyomeridium'' is a genus of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has eight species. Taxonomy The genus was circumscribed in 2016 by lichenologists André Aptroot, Matthew Nelson, and Robert Lücking, with '' Dictyomeridium proponens'' assigned as the type species. The seven species they included in the genus were mostly previously classified in the genus ''Polymeridium'', while the type species was known by different names in the genus '' Campylothelium''. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the group of species was distant from the core group of their previous genus. An eight species, from Australia, was added to the genus in 2022. Description ''Dictyomeridium'' is distinguished from other genera in the family Trypetheliaceae by its (multichambered) ascospores, the lateral ostioles of its ascomata, and several subtle microscopic differences in the form of the and the ascospores. ''Dictyomeridium'' species are distinguished fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coenogonium Lueckingii
''Coenogonium lueckingii'' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Coenogoniaceae. It is known to occur in a couple of locations in South Korea, where it grows on the bark of trees in humid locations. Taxonomy The lichen was formally described as a new species in 2015 by Yogesh Joshi, Liudmila Gagarina, Joseph Halda, and Jae-Sun Hur. The type specimen was collected from Wonang Falls in Donnaeko valley ( Seogwipo, Jeju Province) at an altitude of . The species epithet honours lichenologist Robert Lücking, "for his enormous contributions to the field of lichenology". Description The lichen has a smooth, greenish-grey to pale grey thallus surrounded by a white prothallus. Its apothecia are between 0.4 and 0.9 mm in diameter, and have a that is pale yellowish-orange to deep orange, encircled by a cream-coloured . The ascospores, which number 8 per ascus, are ellipsoid to fusiform (spindle-shaped), colourless, and measure 7.5–10 μm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapsa Lueckingii
''Pseudochapsa lueckingii'' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. It is known only from a single collection in São Paulo, Brazil. Taxonomy The lichen was first formally described as a new species in 2009 by Klaus Kalb. He collected the type specimen from a dense and humid rainforest at an elevation of , where it was found growing on the smooth bark of a deciduous tree. The species epithet honours his colleague Robert Lücking, "for his outstanding contributions to tropical lichenology". The taxon was transferred in 2012 to '' Pseudochapsa'', a segregate genus of ''Chapsa'', characterised by the brown colour of its . Description ''Pseudochapsa lueckingii'' has a smooth, olive-green thallus with a 3–10 μm-thick, hyaline cortical layer. It has large, more-or-less round apothecia measuring 0.7–2 mm in diameter with a pale brown covered with white . Ascospores typically have between 5 and 7 transverse septa, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calenia Lueckingii
''Calenia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi within the family Gomphillaceae The Gomphillaceae are a family of lichens in the order Ostropales. Species in this family are found mostly in tropical regions. Genera According to a recent (2020) estimate, the Gomphillaceae comprise 26 genera and about 420 species. The followi .... Species * '' Calenia atlantica'' * '' Calenia bullatinoides'' * '' Calenia chroodisciformis'' * '' Calenia corticola'' * '' Calenia depressa'' * '' Calenia echinoplacoides'' * '' Calenia flava'' * '' Calenia flavescens'' – China * '' Calenia fumosa'' * '' Calenia graphidea'' * '' Calenia leptocarpa'' * '' Calenia lueckingii'' – Costa Rica * '' Calenia obtecta'' * '' Calenia pernambucensis'' * '' Calenia phyllogena'' * '' Calenia pseudographidea'' * '' Calenia subdepressa'' * '' Calenia surinamensis'' * '' Calenia thelotremella'' * '' Calenia verrucosa'' – China References Ostropales Lichen genera Ostropales genera Tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byssoloma Lueckingii
''Byssoloma'' is a genus of leaf-dwelling lichens in the family Pilocarpaceae. Species , Species Fungorum accepts 34 species of ''Byssoloma''. *''Byssoloma annuum'' *'' Byssoloma aurantiacum'' *'' Byssoloma australiense'' *''Byssoloma braulioi'' *''Byssoloma brunneodiscum'' – China *''Byssoloma carneum'' *''Byssoloma catarinense'' *'' Byssoloma catillariosporum'' *'' Byssoloma chlorinum'' *'' Byssoloma confusum'' *''Byssoloma diederichii'' *''Byssoloma dimerelloides'' *''Byssoloma discordans'' *''Byssoloma fuscothallinum'' *''Byssoloma fuscum'' *''Byssoloma humboldtianum'' *''Byssoloma hypophyllum'' *''Byssoloma kakouettae'' *''Byssoloma laurisilvae'' – Europe *''Byssoloma leucoblepharum'' *''Byssoloma llimonae'' *'' Byssoloma maderense'' *''Byssoloma marginatum'' *'' Byssoloma melanodiscocarpum'' – China *'' Byssoloma microcarpum'' *'' Byssoloma multipunctatum'' *'' Byssoloma murinum'' *'' Byssoloma permutans'' *'' Byssoloma rubrofuscum'' †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspidothelium Lueckingii
''Aspidothelium lueckingii'' is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) in the family Thelenellaceae. Found in mountainous cloud forests in Bolivia, it was formally described in 2009 by lichenologist Adam Flakus. The type specimen was collected near Incachaca village ( Chapare Province) at an elevation of , where it was found growing on the bark of a pine tree. It is known only from the type locality. It is named in honour of German lichenologist Robert Lücking, "for his magnificent contribution to the knowledge of tropical lichens." Description Characteristics of the lichen include its pale with seta-like appendages and large, regularly ascospores. ''Aspidothelium lueckingii'' has a thin and smooth, green to greyish-green thallus with an irregular shape and an translucent, indistinct . It has a photobiont partner, with green cells measuring 6–14 µm The micrometre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
