Fungalpedia – Note 386, Bryobilimbia

 

Bryobilimbia Fryday, Printzen & S. Ekman

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1          

Classification: Lecideaceae, Lecideales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Based on phylogenetic analyses of ITS, LSU, mtSSU, RPB1, and RPB2, together with morphological studies, Fryday et al. (2014) proposed Bryobilimbia to accommodate five species. B. ahlesii (=Lecidea ahlesii), B. australis (=Mycobilimbia australis), B. diapensiae (=L. diapensiae), B. hypnorum (=L. hypnorum) (type species) and B. sanguineoatra (=L. sanguineoatra). Subsequently, Fryday and Hertel (2014) introduced a new species, B. austrosaxicola, based on morphological comparison. Later, one combinations B. Fissuriseda (=Lecidea fissuriseda) (Marthinsen et al. 2019), and two new species B. Flakusii and B. pallida  were introduced in this genus based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence (Rodriguez-Flakus 2020). Bryobilimbia is characterized by a hymenium usually with scattered, blue-violet (K+ aeruginosa-green) granules, porpidia-type asci, and ascospores with a warped perispore or thin gelatinous coat (Fryday et al. 2014, Hu et al. 2014). 

            Type species: Bryobilimbia hypnorum (Lib.) Fryday, Printzen & S. Ekman

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Bryobilimbia        

Figure 1 – Bryobilimbia hypnorum. a Asci. b Ascospores. Scale bars: a, b = 10 µm. Redrawn from https://www.afl-lichenologie.fr/Photos_AFL/Photos_AFL_B/Bryobilimbia_hypnorum.htm.

 

References

Fryday AM & Hertel H. 2014 – A contribution to the family Lecideaceae s. lat. (Lecanoromycetidae inc. sed., lichenized Ascomycota) in the southern subpolar region; including eight new species and some revised generic circumscriptions. The Lichenologist 46(3), 389–412.

Fryday AM, Printzen C, Ekman S. 2014 – Bryobilimbia, a new generic name for Lecidea hypnorum and closely related species. The Lichenologist 46 (1): 25–37.

Hu L, Zhao X, Sun LY, Zhao ZT, et al. 2014 – Four lecideoid lichens new to China. Mycotaxon 128, 83–91.

Marthinsen G, Rui S, Timdal E. 2019 – OLICH: A reference library of DNA barcodes for Nordic lichens. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36252.

Rodriguez-Flakus, P. 2020 – Non-saxicolous lecideoid lichens in southern South America. Phytotaxa 476(1), 1–73.

 

Entry by

Du TY, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China; Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand; School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 26 November 2024

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