Melanotrema

Genus of lichen-forming fungi

Melanotrema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Melanotrema
Frisch (2006)
Type species
Melanotrema platystomum
(Mont.) Frisch (2006)

Melanotrema is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Andreas Frisch in 2006, with M. platystomum assigned as the type species.[2]

Species

As of March 2023[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 12 species of Melanotrema.[1]

  • Melanotrema astrolucens (Sipman) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema columellatum (Nyl.) Mangold (2009)
  • Melanotrema comosum Sipman (2014)
  • Melanotrema endomelaenum (Müll.Arg.) Mangold (2009)
  • Melanotrema foratum (Nyl.) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema lirelliforme (Tuck.) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema lynceodes (Nyl.) Rivas Plata, Lücking & Lumbsch (2014)
  • Melanotrema meiospermoides (Hale) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema meiospermum (Nyl.) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema melanophthalmum (Homchant. & Coppins) Papong & Lumbsch (2010)
  • Melanotrema platystomum (Mont.) Frisch (2006)
  • Melanotrema submicrosporoides (Nagarkar, Sethy & Patw.) S.Joshi & Lücking (2018)

References

  1. ^ a b "Melanotrema". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  2. ^ Frisch, A.; Kalb, K. (2006). "A monograph of Thelotremataceae with a complex structure of the columella". Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 92: 371–516 [382].
Taxon identifiers
Melanotrema


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