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Genus of lichens
Xanthomendoza is a
genus of small, bright orange
foliose
lichens with
lecanorine
apothecia . It is in the family
Teloschistaceae .
[1] Members of the genus are
commonly called sunburst lichens or orange lichens because of their bright orange color.
[2] : 130
Members of Xanthomendoza were formerly classified in the genus
Xanthoria , but Xanthomendoza members have
rhizenes or scattered
holdfasts , while Xanthoria do not, and they have different
conidia .
[2]
Lichen spot tests on the upper
cortex are K+ purple, KC−, C−, and P−.
[2]
Species
As of January 2024
[update] ,
Species Fungorum (in the
Catalogue of Life ) accepts nine species of Xanthomendoza :
[3]
References
^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; LKT, Al-Ani; S, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; Tsurykau, Andrei; Mesic, Armin; Navathe, Sudhir; Papp, Viktor; Oliveira Fiuza, Patrícia; Vázquez, Víctor; Gautam, Ajay; Becerra, Alejandra G.; Ekanayaka, Anusha; K. C., Rajeshkumar; Bezerra, Jadson; Matočec, Neven; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa; Suetrong, Satinee (2020).
"Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa" . Mycosphere . 11 : 1060–1456.
doi :
10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8 .
hdl :
10481/61998 .
^
a
b
c Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014,
ISBN
978-0-300-19500-2
^ Source dataset.
Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+.
"Xanthomendoza " .
Catalog of Life Version 2022-02-18 . Retrieved 18 March 2021 .
^ Kondratyuk, S.Y.; Kärnefelt, I.; Elix, J.A.; Thell, A. (2009). "Contributions to the Teloschistaceae, with particular reference to the Southern Hemisphere". Bibliotheca Lichenologica . 100 (389): 207–282 [275].
^ Bungartz, Frank; Søchting, Ulrik; Arup, Ulf (2020).
"Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota) from the Galapagos Islands: a phylogenetic revision based on morphological, anatomical, chemical, and molecular data" . Plant and Fungal Systematics . 65 (2): 515–576.
doi :
10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0030 .