ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Emmanuelia, a new genus of lobarioid lichen-forming fungi (Ascomycota: Peltigerales): phylogeny and synopsis of accepted species
| 1 | Evolution and Conservation Biology, InBIOS Research Center, University
of Liège, Quartier Vallée 1, Chemin de la Vallée 4, B-4000
Liège, Belgium |
| 2 | Botanischer Garten Und Botanisches Museum, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 3 | Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Torre de Laboratorios,
Herbario, Bogotá, 11021, Colombia |
| 4 | Field Museum, Science and Education, Chicago, IL 60605, USA |
| 5 | Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1025 E.
57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA |
| 6 | Biodiversity Integration Knowledge Center, Arizona State University,
PO Box 874108, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4108, USA |
| 7 | Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO), Quito, Ecuador |
| 8 | Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF), Galápagos,
Ecuador |
| 9 | Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, CEP:
49500-000, Itabaiana, Sergipe, Brazil |
| 10 | Universidade da Região de Joinville, Departamento de Ciências
Biológicas, Laboratório de Liquenologia, Rua: Paulo Malschitzki,
n° 10 – Zona Industrial, CEP: 89219-710 – Joinville, SC, Brazil |
| 11 | Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Museu de Ciências
Naturais, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil |
| 12 | Laboratório de Botânica / Liquenologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade
Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, CEP 79070-900, Campo
Grande – MS, Brazil |
| 13 | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA |
| 14 | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of
Copenhagen,
Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark |
Publication date: 2020-06-02
Plant and Fungal Systematics 2020; 65(1): 76–94
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ABSTRACT
The former family Lobariaceae, now included in Peltigeraceae as subfamily
Lobarioideae, has undergone substantial changes in its generic classification in recent
years, based on phylogenetic inferences highlighting the polyphyly of the speciose genera
Lobaria, Pseudocyphellaria and Sticta. Here we introduce the new genus Emmanuelia,
named in honor of Prof. Emmanuël Sérusiaux for his extensive work on the Peltigerales.
Emmanuelia currently comprises twelve species. It is superficially similar to the lobarioid
genus Ricasolia, but differs by its apothecia, rimmed by overarching and often crenulate to
lobulate margins, with the parathecium (proper excipulum) and the amphithecium (thalline
excipulum formed by the thallus cortex) apically separated and of a different structure.
Also, ascospore dimensions and shape differ between the two genera, with the ascospores
of Emmanuelia being longer and narrower. Molecular phylogenetic analyses using DNA
nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) and the small subunit
of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA (mtSSU) confirm that Emmanuelia belongs to the
Lobaria s.lat. clade and forms a monophyletic group sister to the lineage consisting of
Dendriscosticta, Lobariella and Yoshimuriella. None of the available generic names of
lobarioid lichens can be applied to this group, and consequently a new name is proposed
for this new genus, which is typified with E. ravenelii comb. nov. Eleven other species are
transferred to Emmanuelia: E. americana comb. nov., E. conformis comb. nov., E. cuprea
comb. nov., E. elaeodes comb. nov., E. erosa comb. nov., E. excisa comb. nov., E. lobulifera
comb. nov., E. ornata comb. nov., E. patinifera comb. nov., E. pseudolivacea
comb. nov. and E. tenuis comb. nov. The genus is represented in North America by three
species, including E. lobulifera, which is resurrected from synonymy with E. (Lobaria)
tenuis, a South American species, and E. ornata, whose populations were previously treated
under E. (Lobaria) ravenelii.
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