lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.Cladoniaceae. Swedish botanist Erik Acharius first formally described the species in
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as ''Baeomyces pocillum'', but
Olivier Jules Richard Olivier Jules Richard (22 March 1836 – 7 January 1896) was a French botanist, mycologist and lichenologist who published on the anatomy and symbiosis of lichens.
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transferred it to the genus '' Cladonia'' in 1877.
Ecology
''Cladonia pocillum'' is host to numerous species of
lichenicolous fungi
A lichenicolous fungus is a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host. A lichenicolous fungus is not the same as the fungus that is the component of the lichen, which is known as a lichenized fungus. They are most commonly specific ...
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Arthonia epicladonia
''Arthonia'' is a genus of lichens in the family Arthoniaceae. It was circumscribed by Swedish botanist Erik Acharius in 1806.
It is a genus of thin crustose lichen of widely varying forms, commonly called comma lichens.Field Guide to Californ ...
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Bachmanniomyces uncialicola
''Bachmanniomyces'' is a genus of fungi with unclear classification.
Species:
*''Bachmanniomyces australis''
*''Bachmanniomyces carniolicus''
*''Bachmanniomyces muscigenae''
*''Bachmanniomyces pseudocyphellariae''
*''Bachmanniomyces punctum''
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Cercidospora cladoniicola
''Cercidospora'' is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown ('' incertae sedis''). The genus was first described by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1865; it is synonymous ...
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Cercidospora punctillata
''Cercidospora'' is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown ('' incertae sedis''). The genus was first described by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1865; it is synonymous ...
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Dactylospora deminuta
''Sclerococcum'' is a genus of lichenicolous fungi in the family Dactylosporaceae.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscribed in 1825 by Elias Magnus Fries. The type species is ''Sclerococcum sphaerale'', originally described in 1814 by Erik Achari ...
Lichenoconium pyxidatae
''Lichenoconium pyxidatae'' is a species of lichenicolous fungus belonging to the class Dothideomycetes. It has a Holarctic distribution being found in Alaska and various parts of Russia, including Siberia, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and Wra ...
Polycoccum laursenii
''Polycoccum laursenii'' is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Polycoccaceae. It was first described as a new species in 2004 by Russian mycologist Mikhail Petrovich Zhurbenko. It is found in Alaska and in Russia.
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Pronectria tibellae
''Pronectria'' is a genus of fungi in the family Bionectriaceae. It consists of 44 species, all of which are lichenicolous. The genus was circumscribed
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Protothelenella santessonii
''Protothelenella'' is a genus of fungi in the family Protothelenellaceae. It contains 11 species, some of which form lichens. ''Protothelenella'' species have a crustose thallus with spherical to pear-shaped, dark brown to blackish . Micros ...
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Rinodina egedeana
''Rinodina'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae
The Physciaceae are a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. A 2016 estimate placed 19 genera and 60 ...
Sphaerellothecium araneosum
''Sphaerellothecium araneosum'' is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Phyllachoraceae.
Distribution
''Sphaerellothecium araneosum'' has been reported from the highlands of Iceland and the Arctic desert of Severnaya Zemlya in Russia ...
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Taeniolella beschiana
''Taeniolella'' is a genus of asexual fungi hyphomycetes in the family Mytilinidiaceae. Some of the species are lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling), others are saprophytic, while others are endophytic. The genus was circumscribed in 1958 by Canad ...