''Lendemeriella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

crustose lichen Crustose lichens are lichens that form a crust which strongly adheres to the substrate (soil, rock, tree bark, etc.), making separation from the substrate impossible without destruction. The basic structure of crustose lichens consists of a cor ...

s in the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has ten species. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every po ...

in 2020 by Sergey Kondratyuk, 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,

bryophyte The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants ( embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited ...

s, the bark of deciduous trees as well as Siberian fir. They also grow on

siliceous Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula , most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is ...

and

calcareous Calcareous () is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. In zoology ''Calcareous'' is used as an a ...

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'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the subfamily Caloplacoideae of the family Teloschistaceae. It has ten species. The genus was circumscribed in 2020 by Sergey Kondratyuk, with '' Lendemeriella reptans'' assigned as the type spe ...

'' * '' 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 {{Teloschistales-stub