Verrucaria

Verrucaria is a genus of lichenized (lichen-forming) fungi in the family Verrucariaceae.[1]

Verrucaria
Verrucaria nigrescens, Schwäbische Alb, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Eurotiomycetes
Order:
Verrucariales
Family:
Verrucariaceae
Genus:
Verrucaria

Shrad. (1794)
Type species
Verrucaria rupestris
Shrad. (1794)
Synonyms
  • Trimmatothele Norman ex Zahlbr. (1903)

Species

Species include:[2]

  • Verrucaria aethiobola
  • Verrucaria amphibia
  • Verrucaria aquatilis
  • Verrucaria aspiciliicola
  • Verrucaria baldensis Massal
  • Verrucaria bryoctona
  • Verrucaria ditmarsica
  • Verrucaria dolosa
  • Verrucaria dufourii
  • Verrucaria elaeomelaena
  • Verrucaria funckii
  • Verrucaria fusconigrescens
  • Verrucaria glaucina
  • Verrucaria halizoa Leighton – forms small patches on exposed shores.[3]
  • Verrucaria hochstetteri
  • Verrucaria hydrela
  • Verrucaria margacea
  • Verrucaria marmorea
  • Verrucaria maura Wahl – forms a black layer encrusting as patches on the rocks of the upper littoral and splash zone.[4][5]
  • Verrucaria mucosa Wahl – appears as a smooth thallus.[6] Closely encrusting on rock in irregular patches in the middle littoral.[7]
  • Verrucaria muralis
  • Verrucaria murina
  • Verrucaria nigrescens
  • Verrucaria pachyderma
  • Verrucaria pinguicula
  • Verrucaria praetermissa
  • Verrucaria prominula
  • Verrucaria rupestris Shrad (1794)
  • Verrucaria serpuloides
  • Verrucaria simplex
  • Verrucaria striatula Wahl
  • Verrucaria virdula

Candelariella aurella was formerly placed here as Verrucaria aurella

Distribution

Verrucaria ditmarsica Erichsen and V. Maura Wahlenb. have been recorded in 1984 from the Lighthouse Island, Copeland Island, County Down, Northern Ireland.[8]

References
  1. Gueidan C, Roux C, Lutzoni F (2007). "Using a multigene phylogenetic analysis to assess generic delineation and character evolution in Verrucariaceae (Verrucariales, Ascomycota)". Mycological Research. 111 (Pt 10): 1145–68. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.08.010. PMID 17981450.
  2. Gilbert, Oliver (2000). Lichens. Hammersmith: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-220082-1.
  3. Dobson, Frank S (2010). A Field Key to Coastal and Seashore Lichens. New Malden: Frank S Dobson. ISBN 978-0-9542324-5-0.
  4. Lewis, J.R. 1964. The Ecology of Rocky Shores. The English Universities Press Ltd
  5. Young, CM. 1961. The New Naturalist The Sea Shore. Collins, London
  6. Campbell, A.C. 1984. The Country Life Guide to the Shallow Seas of Britain and Europe. Country Life Books. ISBN 0-600-34396 0
  7. Barrett, J.H, and Young, C.M. 1960. Collins Pocket Guide to the Sea Shore. Collins, London
  8. Morton, O. 1988. Lichens on Lighthouse Island. Copeland Bird Observatory Annual Report for 1986 p.44


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