Lambiella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Xylographaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by German botanist Hannes Hertel in 1984, with Lambiella psephota assigned as the type species.[2]

Lambiella
Lambiella insularis growing parasitically on Lecanora rupicola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Baeomycetales
Family: Xylographaceae
Genus: Lambiella
Hertel (1984)
Type species
Lambiella psephota
(Tuck.) Hertel (1984)

The genus name of Lambiella is in honour of Elke Mackenzie (1911–1990), born as Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, who was a British polar explorer and botanist who specialised in the field of lichenology.[3]

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Hertel, H. (1984). "Über saxicole, lecideoide Flechten der Subantarktis". Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia (in German). 79: 399–499.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. ^ Spribille, Toby; Fryday, Alan M.; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Svensson, Måns; Tønsberg, Tor; Ekman, Stefan; Holien, Håkon; Resl, Philipp; Schneider, Kevin; Stabentheiner, Edith; Thüs, Holger; Vondrák, Jan; Sharman, Lewis (2020). "Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska". The Lichenologist. 52 (2): 61–181. doi:10.1017/S0024282920000079. PMC 7398404. PMID 32788812.
  5. ^ McCune, Bruce; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2017). "Lambiella arenosa, a new species from the coastal Oregon dunes". The Bryologist. 120 (3): 329–334. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-120.3.329. S2CID 90927856.
  6. ^ Aptroot, André (2015). "Holarctic and Caribbean crustose lichens collected by López Figueras in Venezuela". Glalia. 7 (1): 1–18.