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Topeliopsis

{{Short description|Genus of lichen-forming fungi}}

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| taxon = Topeliopsis

| authority = Kantvilas & Vězda (2000)

| type_species = Topeliopsis muscicola

| type_species_authority = Kantvilas & Vězda (2000)

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Topeliopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.

Taxonomy

The genus Topeliopsis was established in 2000 by the lichenologists Gintaras Kantvilas and Antonín Vězda as part of their studies on the lichen family Thelotremataceae in Tasmania. The genus name, which contains the Greek "-opsis", alludes to its superficial resemblance to the lichen genus Topelia.

Topeliopsis was created to accommodate those members of Thelotremataceae that possess certain distinctive characteristics:

  • {{lichengloss|sessile}} or somewhat immersed apothecia (the disc-shaped reproductive structures)
  • {{lichengloss|perithecioid}} growth form (flask-shaped structures that open by a small pore)
  • {{lichengloss|cupular}} excipulum (a cup-like structure surrounding the reproductive tissue)
  • deeply {{lichengloss|urceolate}} disc (a deeply concave, pitcher-shaped reproductive surface)
  • markedly thickened young asci (the sac-like structures containing spores)
  • large, thin-walled, {{lichengloss|muriform}} ascospores that turn reddish in iodine

The genus is closely related to both Chroodiscus and Pseudoramonia, but differs from Chroodiscus by having a concave disc rather than a plane one, and by possessing a cupular (cup-shaped) rather than ring-like {{lichengloss|excipulum}}. While Pseudoramonia shares the perithecioid apothecia with a cupular excipulum, it differs by having {{lichengloss|stipitate}} (stalked) apothecia and transversely septate spores that do not react with iodine.

When first circumscribed, Topeliopsis included three species:

  • T. muscicola (the type species) – endemic to Tasmania and New Zealand
  • T. rugosa – endemic to Tasmania
  • T. toensbargii – found in the Pacific Northwest of North America

Species

References

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{{cite journal |last=Aptroot |first=A. |year=2002 |title=New and interesting lichens and lichenicolous fungi in Brazil |journal=Fungal Diversity |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=15–45 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287793161}}

{{cite journal |last1=Coppins |first1=B.J. |last2=Aptroot |first2=A. |year=2008 |title=New species and combinations in The Lichens of the British Isles |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=363–374 |doi=10.1017/S0024282908008165}}

{{cite journal |last1=Frisch |first1=A. |last2=Kalb |first2=K. |year=2006 |title=The lichen genus Topeliopsis, additions and corrections |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=37-45 |doi=10.1017/S0024282905005530}}

{{cite journal |last=Kalb |first=K. |year=2001 |title=The lichen genus Topeliopsis in Australia and remarks on Australian Thelotremataceae |journal=Mycotaxon |volume=79 |pages=319–328}}

{{cite journal |last1=Kantvilas |first1=G. |last2=Vězda |first2=A. |year=2000 |title=Studies on the lichen family Thelotremataceae in Tasmania. The genus Chroodiscus and its relatives |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=325–357 |doi=10.1006/lich.2000.0274 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231759051}}

{{cite journal |last=Kantvilas |first=Gintaras |year=2020 |title=Tasmanian chroodiscoid thelotremoid lichens (Graphidaceae) revisited |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=459 |issue=3 |pages=209–218 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.459.3.2}}

{{cite journal |last1=Lumbsch |first1=H.T. |last2=Divakar |first2=P.K. |last3=Messuti |first3=M.I. |last4=Mangold |first4=A. |last5=Lücking |first5=R. |year=2010 |title=A survey of thelotremoid lichens (Ostropales, Ascomycota) in Subantarctic regions excluding Tasmania |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=203–224 |doi=10.1017/S002428290999048X}}

{{cite book |last1=Mangold |first1=A. |last2=Elix |first2=J.A. |last3=Lumbsch |first3=H.T. |year=2009 |chapter=Thelotremataceae |title=Lichens 5 |series=Flora of Australia |volume=57 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study/CSIRO Publishing |pages=653–659 |isbn=978-0-643-09664-6}}

{{cite journal |last1=Messuti |first1=M.I. |last2=Codesal |first2=P.L. |last3=Mangold |first3=A. |last4=Lücking |first4=R. |last5=Lumbsch |first5=H.T. |year=2010 |title=New or interesting Chapsa and Topeliopsis species (Ascomycota, Ostropales) from Argentina |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=191–195 |doi=10.1017/S0024282909990399}}

{{cite journal |last1=Rivas Plata |first1=E. |last2=Lücking |first2=R. |last3=Sipman |first3=H.J.M. |last4=Kalb |first4=K. |last5=Lumbsch |first5=H.T. |year=2010 |title=A world-wide key to the thelotremoid Graphidaceae, excluding the Ocellularia-Myriotrema-Stegobolus clade |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=139–185 |doi=10.1017/S0024282909990491}}

{{cite journal |last1=van den Boom |first1=P.P.G. |last2=Lücking |first2=R. |last3=Sipman |first3=H.J.M. |year=2023 |title=Notes on Graphidaceae in Macaronesia, with descriptions of four new species |journal=Diversity |volume=15 |issue=7 |page=e817 |doi=10.3390/d15070817 |doi-access=free}}

{{cite journal |last1=Weerakoon |first1=Gothamie |last2=Jayalal |first2=Udeni |last3=Wijesundara |first3=Siril |last4=Karunaratne |first4=Veranja |last5=Lücking |first5=Robert |year=2015 |title=Six new Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from Horton Plains National Park, Sri Lanka |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=101 |issue=1–2 |pages=77–88 |doi=10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0241}}

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Category:Graphidaceae

Category:Lichen genera

Category:Graphidales genera

Category:Taxa named by Antonín Vězda

Category:Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas

Category:Taxa described in 2000