''Dendriscosticta'' is a
genus
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of
foliose lichen
Foliose lichen is one of the morphological classes of lichens, which are complex organisms that arise from the symbiotic relationship between fungi and a photosynthetic partner, typically algae. This partnership allows lichen to live in diverse ...
s in the family
Peltigeraceae.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
in 2013 by lichenologists Bibiana Moncada and
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 Univer ...
with ''
Dendriscosticta wrightii'' assigned as the
type species
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. The genus, a segregate of ''
Sticta'', was created to contain species in the ''Sticta wrightii''
clade
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. ''Dendriscosticta'' has a
sister taxon
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Definition
The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram:
Taxon A and t ...
relationship with the genera ''
Yoshimuriella'' and ''
Lobariella
''Lobariella'' is a genus of lichens belonging to the family Peltigeraceae
The Peltigeraceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales. The Peltigeraceae, which contains 15 genera and about 600 species, has recently (2018) been emended ...
''.
''Dendriscosticta'' is distinguished from ''Sticta'' by the presence of
algae in the excipulum.
Species
* ''
Dendriscosticta gelida''
* ''
Dendriscosticta hookeri''
* ''
Dendriscosticta insinuans''
* ''
Dendriscosticta oroborealis''
* ''
Dendriscosticta phyllidiata''
* ''
Dendriscosticta platyphylla''
* ''
Dendriscosticta platyphylloides''
* ''
Dendriscosticta praetextata''
* ''
Dendriscosticta wrightii''
* ''
Dendriscosticta yatabeana''
References
Peltigerales
Peltigerales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 2013
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
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