Blastenia

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Blastenia
Blastenia ferruginea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Blastenia
A.Massal.
Type species
Blastenia ferruginea
(Huds.) A.Massal. (1852)

Blastenia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1852 by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo.[2][3]

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species

As of January 2024, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 29 species of Blastenia.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Blastenia A.Massal". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Index Fungorum - Names Record: Blastenia". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  3. ^ Massalongo, A.B. (1852), "Synopsis Lichenum Blasteniospororum", Flora or Botanical Newspaper: Which Contains Reviews, Treatises, Essays, News and News Concerning Botany (in Latin), 35: 573
  4. ^ "Blastenia". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Vondrák, Jan; Frolov, Ivan; Košnar, Jiří; Arup, Ulf; Veselská, Tereza; Halıcı, Gökhan; Malíček, Jiří; Søchting, Ulrik (2020). "Substrate switches, phenotypic innovations and allopatric speciation formed taxonomic diversity within the lichen genus Blastenia". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 58 (3): 295–330. doi:10.1111/jse.12503.