Squamarina

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| image_caption = Squamarina sp. growing in Warscheneck, Upper Austria

| taxon = Squamarina

| authority = Poelt (1958)

| type_species = Squamarina gypsacea

| type_species_authority = (Sm.) Poelt (1958)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Squamarina is a genus of lichens in the family Stereocaulaceae. They form patches of radiating {{lichengloss|lobes}} or overlapping scales ({{lichengloss|squamules}}), with a well-developed upper {{lichengloss|cortex}} and no lower cortex.{{cite book |vauthors=Sharnoff S, Brodo IM, Sharnoff SD|title=Lichens of North America |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Connecticut |year=2001 |isbn=0-300-08249-5}} They grow on calcareous soil and rocks. Squamarina lentigera can be used to make a yellow dye.

Genus Squamarina was circumscribed by the lichenologist Josef Poelt in 1958, with Squamarina gypsacea assigned as the type species.

Species

{{As of|2024|November}}, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accept five species of Squamarina:

Squamarina cartilaginea {{au|(With.) P.James (1980)}}
Squamarina gypsacea {{au|(Sm.) Poelt (1958)}}
Squamarina haysomii {{au|C.W.Dodge 1970)}}
Squamarina lentigera {{au|(Weber) Poelt (1958)}}
Squamarina palmyrensis {{au|(H.Magn.) S.Y.Kondr. (2002)}}

References

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{{cite journal |last=Brough |first=S. G. |title=Navajo lichen dyes |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=20 |issue=3 |year=1988 |doi=10.1017/s0024282988000313 |pages=279–290}}

{{Catalogue of Life |id=CF439 |title=Squamarina |access-date=27 November 2024}}

{{cite journal |last=Dodge |first=C.W. |year=1970 |title=Lichenological notes on the flora of the Antarctic Continent and the Subantarctic islands. IX–XI |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=19 |issue=3–4 |pages=439–502 [447]}}

{{cite journal |last1=Hawksworth |first1=D.L. |last2=James |first2=P.W. |last3=Coppins |first3=B.J. |title=Checklist of British lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=1980 |doi=10.1017/s0024282980000035 |pages=1–115 [107]}}

{{cite journal |last=Poelt |first=J. |year=1958 |title=Die lobaten Arten der Flechtengattung Lecanora Ach. sensu ampl. in der Holarktis |trans-title=The lobed species of the lichen genus Lecanora Ach. sensu ampl. in the Holarctic |journal=Mitteilungen aus der Botanischen Staatssammlung München |volume=19–20 |pages=411–589 |language=de}}

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Category:Stereocaulaceae

Category:Lichen genera

Category:Lecanorales genera

Category:Taxa described in 1958

Category:Taxa named by Josef Poelt