Topeliopsis decorticans
Biostatus
Native
Current conservation status
2018 | Data Deficient | Qualifiers: SO
Category
Lichen
Structural class
Lichens - Crustose
Lichen substrates
Corticolous (bark, wood), Muscicolous (moss)
Substrate details
Corticolous, muscicolous
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Synonyms
Thelotrema decorticans, Thelotrema periphysatum
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Other information
Topeliopsis is a rather heterogeneous genus included in the family Thelotremataceae (Eriksson et al. 2004; Pennycook & Galloway 2004), for taxa with sessile, exfoliating, perithecioid apothecia, with a cupular, usually brown-pigmented exciple, very well-developed periphyses, a persistently and deeply urceolate disc, markedly apically thickened asci (when young) and very large, thin-walled, colourless ascospores turning reddish or purple in KI.
Referencing and citations
References and further reading
Eriksson O.E., Baral H.-O., Currah R.S., Hansen K., Kurtzman C.P., Rambold G. & Laessøe T. 2004: Outline of Ascomycota – 2004. Myconet 10: 1-99.
Galloway D.J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Wellington: PD Hasselberg, Government Printer. 662 pp.
Galloway D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. 2nd edition. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua Press. 2261 pp.
Pennycook S.R. & Galloway D.J. 2004: Checklist of New Zealand “Fungi”. In: McKenzie, E.H.C. (Ed.) Introduction to fungi of New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand/Ngā Harore o Aoteroa Volume 1. Fungal Diversity Research Series 14: 401-488.