Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: New to Science

F. Bungartz: previously reported as A. pannarioides, but all Galapagos specimens belong to A. galapagoensis

Origin: Endemic

• Dal-Forno, M. Lücking, R., Bungartz, F., Yánez-Ayabaca, A., Marcelli, M.P., Spielmann, A.A., Coca, L.F., Chaves, J.L., Aptroot, A., Sipman, H.J.M., Sikaroodi, M., Gillevet, P. & Lawrey, J.D. (2015) From one to six: Unrecognized species diversity in the genus Acantholichen (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae). Mycologia, in press
• Jørgensen, P.M. (1998) Acantholichen pannarioides, a new basidiolichen from South America. The Bryologist 101(3): 444-447.
• Lawrey, J.D. Lücking, R., Sipman, H.J.M., Chaves, J.L., Redhead, S.A., Bungartz, F., Sikaroodi, M. & Gillevet, P.M. (2009) High concentration of basidiolichens in a single family of agaricoid mushrooms (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae). Mycological Research 113: 114-1171.
• Lücking, R. Lawrey, J.D., Sikaroodi, M., Gillevet, P.M., Chaves, J.L., Sipman, H.J.M. & Bungartz, F. (2009) Do lichens domesticate photobionts like farmers domesticate crops? Evidence from a previously unrecognized lineage of filamentous cyanobacteria. American Journal of Botany 96(8): 1409-1418.
• Yánez-Ayabaca, A. Dal-Forno, M., Bungartz, F., Lücking, R. (2012) A first assessment of Galapagos basidiolichens Fungal Diversity 52:225-244