Oxneriaria is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megasporaceae. It has nine species, all of which are saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens. The genus was circumscribed in 2017 by Sergey Kondratyuk and László Lőkös to contain species formerly in the Aspicilia mashiginensis species group.[1] This species, now the type of the genus, was first described scientifically by Alexander Zahlbruckner as Lecanora mashiginensis.[2] The genus name honours Ukrainian lichenologist Alfred Oxner, who, according to the authors, "provided important contribution [sic] to taxonomy of aspicilioid lichens and to biodiversity of polar lichens".[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Pertusariales |
| Family: | Megasporaceae |
| Genus: | Oxneriaria S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017) |
| Type species | |
| Oxneriaria mashiginensis (Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
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Oxneriaria is morphologically similar to Aspicilia, but differs from this genus in its mostly radiating thallus with either a wrinkled or lobate zone around the margins, in its generally smaller ascospores, and in the presence of the lichen product substictic acid. Species in the genus have a polar and arctic–alpine distribution.[1]
Species edit
- Oxneriaria dendroplaca (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria haeyrenii (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria mashiginensis (Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria nikrapensis (Darb.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria permutata (Zahlbr.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria rivulicola (H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria supertegens (Arnold) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria verruculosa (Kremp.) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
- Oxneriaria virginea (Hue) S.Y.Kondr. & Lőkös (2017)
References edit
- ^ a b c Haji Moniri, M.; Gromakova, A.B.; Lőkös, L.; Kondratyuk, S.Y. (2017). "New members of the Megasporaceae (Pertusariales, lichen-forming Ascomycota): Megaspora iranica spec. nova and Oxneriaria gen. nova" (PDF). Acta Botanica Hungarica. 59 (3–4): 343–370. doi:10.1556/034.59.2017.3-4.5.
- ^ Zahlbruckner, A. (1928). Die Gattung Lecanora. Report of the Scientific Results of the Norwegian Expedition to Novaya Zemlya (Report) (in German). Vol. 44. pp. 1–32.
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