Pachnolepia
Pachnolepia includes a single species in temperate Europe, northern Africa, and North America. Pachnolepia pruinata is an extremely rare species in Norway which is known from from old oak trees in only two localities in Agder and Vestland.
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- Description
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Description
The relevant characters of the genus Pachnolepia are provided under its only species, P. pruinata. The genus is lichenized with a trentepohlioid photobiont.
Remarks
Pachnolepia has been included in Arthonia until recently. Based on molecular systematic studies, it has been accepted as independent genus by Frisch et al. (2014). The genus is phylogenetically closely related to Arthothelium spectabile, the lectotype species of the genus Arthothelium.
Literature
Frisch A, Klepsland J, Palice Z, Bendiksby M, Tønsberg T and Holien H (2020). New and noteworthy lichens and lichenicolous fungi from Norway. Graphis Scripta 32(1): 1–47.
Frisch A, Ohmura Y, Ertz D and Thor G (2015). Inoderma and related genera in Arthoniaceae with elevated white pruinose pycnidia or sporodochia. Lichenologist 47: 233–256.
Frisch A, Thor G, Ertz D and Grube M (2014). The Arthonialean challenge: restructuring Arthoniaceae. Taxon 63: 727–744.