Byssoloma is a genus of leaf-dwelling lichens in the family Pilocarpaceae.[2]

Byssoloma
Byssoloma leucoblepharum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Pilocarpaceae
Genus: Byssoloma
Trevis. (1853)
Type species
Byssoloma leprieurii
Trevis. (1853)
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Taxonomy

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The genus was circumscribed by the Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1853.[3]

Description

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Species in genus Byssoloma form crustose, effuse (spreading) lichens that lack a cortex (outer protective layer). Their photobiont, or photosynthetic partner, is of the chlorococcoid type, a form of green algae.[4]

The apothecia (fruiting bodies), are sessile (directly attached to the thallus without a stalk) and approximately circular in shape. They lack a thalline margin (a rim formed by the lichen thallus) and possess a true exciple, which is a layer of loosely arranged hyphae that can appear hairy or web-like (tomentose-arachnoid) in some species. The hymenium, the spore-bearing tissue, reacts with iodine to turn blue (I+ blue). The hamathecium, consisting of paraphyses (filamentous support structures), is unbranched or slightly branched and not or only slightly thickened at the tips.[4]

The hypothecium, a layer beneath the hymenium, is dark red-brown and may turn purple when treated with potassium hydroxide (K) solution in European species. The asci, which are the sac-like structures where spores develop, typically contain eight spores. They have thick walls and a blue-staining apical dome with a darker blue tubular ring structure and an amyloid (starch-like) gelatinous coat.[4]

The ascospores are three-septate (having three internal partitions), colourless, and found in European species. Asexual reproductive structures, the pycnidia, are also sessile and roughly spherical, usually covered by a layer of loosely interwoven hyphae. The conidiophores (spore-producing cells) are unbranched, forming flask-shaped, bacillar (rod-like), or ellipsoidal conidia (asexual spores) that are constricted in the middle.[4]

Chemically, argopsin, a secondary metabolite (lichen product), is sometimes detected in one species, but otherwise, Byssoloma lacks lichen products.[4]

Species

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Byssoloma meadii
 
Byssoloma subdiscordans

As of July 2024, Species Fungorum accepts 39 species of Byssoloma.[5]

References

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  2. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  3. ^ Trevisan de Saint-Léon, V. (1853). Spighe e Paglie. Scritti Botanici Varj. Vol. 1. p. 6.
  4. ^ a b c d e Cannon, P.; Orange, A.; Aptroot, A.; Sanderson, N.; Coppins, B.; Simkin, J. (2022). Lecanorales: Pilocarpaceae, including the genera Aquacidia, Byssoloma, Fellhanera, Fellhaneropsis, Leimonis and Micarea (PDF). Revisions of British and Irish Lichens. Vol. 27. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Byssoloma". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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