Fungalpedia – Note 1703, Bacidia

Bacidia. De Not.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Ramalinaceae, Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

The genus Bacidia was introduced by De Notaris (1846) and currently includes over 230 species (Jaklitsch et al. 2016, Wijayawardene et al. 2017). Taxa are characterized by a crustose thallus, sessile biatorine or lecideine apothecia with short stalk, with elongate-clavate asci, and hyaline, transversely multiseptate ascospores (Hafellner 1984).

Type species: Bacidia rosella (Pers.) De Not., G. bot. ital. 2(1.1): 190 (1846)

References

Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS 2019 – New and known discolichens from Asia and eastern Europe. Asian Journal of Mycology 2(1), 48–86, Doi 10.5943/ajom/2/1/2