''Swinscowia'' is a
genus
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of
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.[fungi
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in the family
Strigulaceae
''Strigulaceae'' is a family of lichen-forming fungi, one of two families in the order Strigulales (class Dothideomycetes). Recent (2020) molecular analysis of the type genus, '' Strigula'', has led to a reallocation of the foliicolous species i ...
. It has 34 species.
''Swinscowia'' was proposed in 2020 by lichenologists Shu-Hua Jiang,
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 ...
, and
Emmanuël Sérusiaux
Emmanuël Sérusiaux (born 3 October 1953) is a Belgian lichenologist. His career, spanning more than four decades, has combined both lichenology research and political aspects of nature conservation. He spent several periods working as a res ...
to contain non-
foliicolous
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Vascular plants (), also called tracheophytes () or collectively Tracheophyta (), form a large group of land plant ...
species that were isolated from
bark
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* Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick
* Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)
Places
* Bark, Germany
* Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Arts, ...
and
rocks
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.
''
Swinscowia jamesii'', a species that was originally
described in genus ''
Geisleria'', and later transferred to ''Strigula'',
is 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 ...
of the genus. The genus name honours British lichenologist
Dougal Swinscow,
who originally described the type species in 1967.
Species
* ''
Swinscowia affinis''
* ''
Swinscowia albicascens''
* ''
Swinscowia albolinita''
* ''
Swinscowia alpestris''
* ''
Swinscowia amphora''
* ''
Swinscowia aquatica''
* ''
Swinscowia australiensis''
* ''
Swinscowia bahamensis''
* ''
Swinscowia bispora''
* ''
Swinscowia calcarea''
* ''
Swinscowia cavicola''
* ''
Swinscowia confusa''
* ''
Swinscowia decipiens''
* ''
Swinscowia divisa''
* ''
Swinscowia endolithea''
* ''
Swinscowia fracticonidia''
* ''
Swinscowia glabra''
* ''
Swinscowia griseonitens''
* ''
Swinscowia jamesii''
* ''
Swinscowia johnsonii''
* ''
Swinscowia laceribracae''
* ''
Swinscowia muriconidiata''
* ''
Swinscowia muriformis''
* ''
Swinscowia muscicola''
* ''
Swinscowia obtecta''
* ''
Swinscowia pallida''
* ''
Swinscowia porinoides''
* ''
Swinscowia rhodinula''
* ''
Swinscowia rostrata''
* ''
Swinscowia rupestris''
* ''
Swinscowia stigmatella''
* ''
Swinscowia submuriformis''
* ''
Swinscowia tagananae''
* ''
Swinscowia thelopsidoides''
References
Dothideomycetes
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 2020
Taxa named by Robert Lücking
Taxa named by Emmanuël Sérusiaux
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