Pulchrocladia

Pulchrocladia is a genus of fruticose lichens in the family Cladoniaceae. It has three species.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2018 by lichenologists Soili Stenroos, Raquel Pino-Bodas, Helge Thorsten Lumbsch, and Teuvo Ahti. The genus name (from the Latin pulchro, meaning "pretty" or "beautiful") refers to "the beautiful morphology of its species".[2]

Pulchrocladia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Cladoniaceae
Genus: Pulchrocladia
S.Stenroos, Pino-Bodas, Lumbsch & Ahti (2018)
Type species
Pulchrocladia retipora
(Labill.) S.Stenroos, Pino-Bodas & Ahti (2018)
Species
  • P. corallaizon

P. ferdinandii
P. retipora

Species

  • Pulchrocladia corallaizon (F.Wilson ex Filson) S.Stenroos, Pino-Bodas & Ahti (2018)
  • Pulchrocladia ferdinandii (Müll.Arg.) S.Stenroos, Pino-Bodas & Ahti (2018)
  • Pulchrocladia retipora (Labill.) S.Stenroos, Pino-Bodas & Ahti (2018)

References

  1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
  2. Stenroos, Soili; Pino‐Bodas, Raquel; Hyvönen, Jaakko; Lumbsch, Helge Thorsten; Ahti, Teuvo (2018). "Phylogeny of the family Cladoniaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota) based on sequences of multiple loci". Cladistics. 35 (4): 351–384. doi:10.1111/cla.12363. hdl:10261/247495.


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