Aptrootia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trypetheliales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Dothideomycetes Ordo: Trypetheliales

Familia: Trypetheliaceae
Genus: Aptrootia
Species: A. elatior – A. robusta – A. terricola

Name

Aptrootia Lücking & Sipman, 2007

Family: Trypetheliaceae

Type species: Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, L.Umaña & Chaves, 2007

Etymology: Named to honor the Dutch lichenologist, André Aptroot

References

Primary references

• Lücking & Sipman, in Lücking, Sipman, Umaña, Chaves & Lumbsch, Lichenologist 39(2): 188 (2007)

• Lücking, R.; Sipman, H.J.M.; Umaña, L.; Chaves, J.L. and Lumbsch, H.T. (2007) Aptrootia (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for Thelenella terricola. - Lichenologist 39(2): 187–193.   **[RLL List # 206 / Rec.# 28973] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (DOI: 10.1017/S0024282907006445)

Selected reference

• André Aptroot [From Flora of Australia volume 57 (2009)] Discussion of the genus Aptrootia.

Links

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

• Aptrootia in Index Fungorum.

• Aptrootia in MycoBank.