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Lichina
Sign in to saveLichina is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lichinaceae. The genus contains four marine species. These cyanolichens include species such as L. pygmaea or L. confinis, in which the associated cyanobiont has been assigned to the genus Rivularia. Furthermore, evidence of a high specificity of each mycobiont towards particular cyanobiont lineages in both species has been detected.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLichinomycetes
- OrderLichinales
- FamilyLichinaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 48
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Lichinaceae
- Collections
- MEL, WIS, NY, DUKE, AUA, FH
- Recorded in
- South Africa, United Kingdom, France, Ecuador, United States, Australia, Chile, Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Description
- Habitat, distribution, and ecology
- Evolutionary history and biogeography
- Species
- References
Lichina is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Lichinaceae. The genus contains four marine species. These cyanolichens include species such as L. pygmaea or L. confinis, in which the associated cyanobiont has been assigned to the genus Rivularia. Furthermore, evidence of a high specificity of each mycobiont towards particular cyanobiont lineages in both species has been detected.
==Taxonomy== Lichina was circumscribed by the Swedish botanist Carl Adolph Agardh in 1817. He assigned Lichina pygmaea as the type species. This lichen was originally described by John Lightfoot in 1777 as Fucus pygmaea in his work Flora Scotica.
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