Echinoplaca

Echinoplaca is a genus of lichens in the family Gomphillaceae.^[3]

Echinoplaca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Graphidales
Family:	Gomphillaceae
Genus:	Echinoplaca Fée (1825)[1]
Type species
Echinoplaca epiphylla Fée (1825)
Synonyms[2]
Artheliopsis Vain. (1896) Arthotheliopsis Vain. (1896) Arthotheliopsidomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953) Pycnodermellina Bat. & H.Maia (1957) Phallomyces Bat. & Valle (1961) Sporocybomyces H.Maia (1967)

Species

As of April 2023^[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 18 species of Echinoplaca.^[3]

• Echinoplaca areolata Lücking & W.R.Buck (2007)^[4]
• Echinoplaca atromuralis Lücking (2008)^[5]
• Echinoplaca basalis W.B.Sanders & Lücking (2015)^[6]
• Echinoplaca campanulata Kalb & Vězda (2000)^[7]
• Echinoplaca caruaruensis M.Cáceres & Lücking (2007)^[8]
• Echinoplaca epiphylla Fée (1825)^[1]
• Echinoplaca epiphylloides Lücking (2008)^[5]
• Echinoplaca furcata Sérus. (1989)^[9]
• Echinoplaca leucomuralis Lücking (2008)^[5]
• Echinoplaca leucotrichoides (Vain.) R.Sant. (1952)
• Echinoplaca macgregorii (Vain.) Lücking, Sérus. & Vězda (2005)
• Echinoplaca pellicula (Müll.Arg.) R.Sant. (1952)
• Echinoplaca pernambucensis Øvstedal & Elix (2011)^[10]
• Echinoplaca schizidiifera J.E.Hern. & Lücking (2011)^[10]
• Echinoplaca tetrapla (Zahlbr.) Lücking (2001)
• Echinoplaca verrucifera Lücking (1997)^[11]
• Echinoplaca vezdana Lücking & Kalb (2001)^[12]
• Echinoplaca wilsoniorum Lücking (2008)^[5]

References

1. Fée ALA. (1824). Essai sur les cryptogames des écorces exotiques officinales (in French). pp. 1–180.
2. "Synonymy: Echinoplaca Fée". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
3. "Echinoplaca". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
4. Lücking, R.; Buck, W.R.; Rivas Plata, E. (2007). "The lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) in eastern North America, with notes on hyphophore development in Gomphillus and Gyalideopsis". The Bryologist. 110 (4): 622–672. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[622:TLFGOI]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85989163.
5. Lücking, R. (2008). Foliicolous lichenized fungi. Flora Neotropica. Vol. 103. pp. 1–867.
6. Sanders, W.B.; Lücking, R. (2015). "Three new species of foliicolous Gomphillaceae (lichen-forming ascomycetes) from southern Florida". The Bryologist. 118 (2): 170–177. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-118.2.170. S2CID 86117696.
7. Lücking, R.; Kalb, K. (2000). "Foliikole Flechten aus Brasilien (vornehmlich Amazonien), inklusive einer Checkliste und Bemerkungen zu Coenogonium und Dimerella (Gyalectaceae)". Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (in German). 122 (1): 1–61.
8. Cáceres, M.E.S. (2007). Corticolous crustose and microfoliose lichens of northeastern Brazil. Libri Botanici. Vol. 22. pp. 1–168.
9. Sérusiaux, E. (1989). "Echinoplaca furcata, a new species of foliicolous lichen (Gomphillaceae) from Rwanda". Mycotaxon. 35 (2): 237–242.
10. Lumbsch, H. T.; Ahti, T.; Altermann, S.; De Paz, G. A.; Aptroot, A.; Arup, U.; et al. (2011). "One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity". Phytotaxa. 18 (1): 1–127. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1. hdl:11336/4198.
11. Lücking, R. (1997). Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa Rica. The family Gomphillaceae. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 65. pp. 1–109.
12. Lücking, R.; Kalb, K. (2001). "Echinoplaca vezdana (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae): a new lichenized fungus". Taxon. 50 (3): 837–840. doi:10.2307/1223711. JSTOR 1223711.