Fungalpedia – Note 2890, Lichenopuccinia

 

Lichenopuccinia D. Hawksw. & Hafellner. 

Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia.

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

Classification: Ascomycota genera incertae sedis, Fungi.

Lichenopuccinia was introduced by Hawksworth (1984) to accommodate the sole lichenicolous hyphomycete L. poeltii, found on the thallus of Parmelia sulcata. The genus is characterized by discrete sporodochia with pseudoparenchymatous conidiomata, macronematous, cylindrical conidiophores, and monoblastic, terminal or sympodial, non-proliferating conidiogenous cells. The conidia are singly arising, elongate-clavate, with a truncate base, colorless, 3–5 distoseptate (Atienza et al. 1994). Due to the lack of molecular data, the genus is tentatively placed within Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Hyde et al. 2024). 

Type species: Lichenopuccinia poeltii D. Hawksw. & Hafellner, on Parmelia sulcata (Hawksworth 1984).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lichenopuccinia.

Figure 1 – Lichenopuccinia poeltii redrawn from https://www.outerhebridesfungi.co.uk/-lichenicolous-species.php?id=536. a Sporodochia of thallus of Parmelia sp. b Section of sporodochium. c Conidia.

 

References

Atienza V, Hawksworth D. 1994 – Minutoexcipula tuckerae gen. et sp. nov., a new lichenicolous deuteromycete on Pertusaria texana in the United States. Mycological Research 98 (5), 587–592.

Hawksworth DL, Galloway D. 1984 – The identity of Plectocarpon Fée, and its implications for Lichenomyces pseudocyphellaria and the typification of Sticta delisea. Lichenologist 16 (1), 85–89.

Hyde KD, Noorabadi M, Thiyagaraja V, He M et al. 2024 – The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. mycosphere 15, 5146–6239.

 

Entry by

Meng QF, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand and School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou 563000, China.

 

Published online 5 August 2026

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