''Lendemeriella'' is a
genus
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of
crustose lichen
Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the Substrate (biology), substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichen ...
s in the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family
Teloschistaceae
The Teloschistaceae are a large family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The family, estimated to contain over 1800 species, was extensively revised in 2013, including the creation o ...
. It has ten species. The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
in 2020 by
Sergey Kondratyuk
Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk ( uk, Сергій Якович Кондратюк) (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lic ...
, with ''
Lendemeriella reptans'' assigned as the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
. The genus name honours the American lichenologist James Lendemer,
who co-authored the type species in 2012 (as ''Caloplaca reptans'').
''Lendemeriella'' species have an arctic-alpine, boreal-montane, and Mediterranean distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. They grow on twigs, wood,
bryophytes, the bark of deciduous trees as well as
Siberian fir
''Abies sibirica'', the Siberian fir, is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the taiga east of the Volga River and south of 67°40' North latitude in Siberia through Turkestan, northeast Xinjiang, Mongolia and Heilongjiang.
Distribution
The ...
. They also grow on
siliceous and
calcareous
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In zoology
''Calcareous'' is used as an adje ...
rock in certain habitats.
Species
* ''
Lendemeriella aureopruinosa''
* ''
Lendemeriella borealis''
* ''
Lendemeriella dakotensis
''Lendemeriella'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has ten species. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2020 by Sergey Kondratyuk, with ''Lendemeriella reptans ...
''
* ''
Lendemeriella exsecuta''
* ''
Lendemeriella lucifuga''
* ''
Lendemeriella luteoaurantia''
– South Korea
* ''
Lendemeriella nivalis''
* ''
Lendemeriella reptans''
* ''
Lendemeriella sorocarpa''
* ''
Lendemeriella tornoensis''
* ''
Lendemeriella vaczii''
– Antarctica
References
Teloschistales
Teloschistales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 2020
Taxa named by Sergey Kondratyuk
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