Xanthoria

Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] Common names include orange lichen,[3] orange wall lichen,[4]: 134  and sunburst lichen.[4]: 134  They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".

Xanthoria
Xanthoria parietina
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Xanthoria
(Fr.) Th.Fr. (1860)
Type species
Xanthoria parietina
(L.) Th.Fr. (1860)
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Parmelia subdiv. Xanthoria Fr. (1825)
  • Blasteniospora Trevis. (1853)
  • Dufouria Trevis. (1861)
  • Nylanderiella Hue (1914)

Species
  • Xanthoria aureola (Ach.) Erichsen (1930)
  • Xanthoria calcicola Oxner (1937)
  • Xanthoria ectaneoides (Nyl.) Zahlbr. (1931)
  • Xanthoria elegans (Link) Th.Fr. (1860) – elegant orange wall lichen, elegant sunburst lichen
  • Xanthoria juniperina S.Y.Kondr. (2013)
  • Xanthoria kangarooensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)
  • Xanthoria lapalmaensis Schumm & S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria parietina (L.) Th.Fr. (1860) – common orange lichen, yellow scale, maritime sunburst lichen, shore lichen[5]
  • Xanthoria schummii S.Y.Kondr. (2017)
  • Xanthoria splendidula (Zahlbr.) Makryĭ (2007)
  • Xanthoria ulophyllodes Räsänen (1931) – powdery sunburst lichen[5]
  • Xanthoria whinrayi S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007)
  • Xanthoria yorkensis S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2009)

The taxa Xanthoria coomae S.Y.Kondr. & Kärnefelt (2007) and Xanthoria polessica S.Y.Kondr. & Yatsyna (2013) were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication.[6]

References
  1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Xanthoria (Fr.) Th. Fr., Lich. arct. (Uppsala): 66 (1860)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2.
  3. Xanthoria. USDA PLANTS.
  4. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  5. Waleski Joe (2007). Lichens of the North Woods Duluth, MN: Kollath+Stensaas
  6. Tsurykau, Andrei; Bely, Pavel; Arup, Ulf (2020). "Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal two new synonyms of Xanthoria parietina". Plant and Fungal Systematics. 65 (2): 620–623. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0033.


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