Cryptothecia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Arthoniomycetes
- Order
- Arthoniales
- Family
- Arthoniaceae
- Genus
- Cryptothecia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cryptothecia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cryptothecia
Cryptothecia is a genus of white to greenish crustose lichens that grow on bark, wood, or leaves, in tropical or subtropical areas worldwide. It has a conspicuous prothallus that develops around its periphery which can be bright red in some species, hence the common name wreath lichen. The main vegetative body (thallus) lacks a cortex (ecorticate and is often immersed in the substrate or byssoid (whispy, like teased wool). The medulla is white, well defined, and often peppered with calcium oxalate crystals. Ascomata are not well defined, being cushions of soft white mycelium immersed in the medullary tissue, hence the name from the Greek krypto = "to conceal" and theke = "a container or sheath". It contains Trentepohlia, a green alga, as its photobiont partner.
Two species have been described in North America. At least one species, Cryptothecia rubrocincta, has been used in Brazil as a source of dye.
...Cryptothecia in languages:
- Chinese
- 輪衣屬
- English
- Wreath Lichens
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Cryptothecia bartlettii
- Cryptothecia calusarum
- Cryptothecia darwiniana
- Cryptothecia effusa
- Cryptothecia evergladensis
- Cryptothecia fuscopunctata
- Cryptothecia galapagoana
- Cryptothecia inexspectata
- Cryptothecia lunulata
- Cryptothecia miniata
- Cryptothecia punctosorediata
- Cryptothecia scripta
- Cryptothecia striata
- Cryptothecia submacrocephala
- Cryptothecia subnidulans




























































































































































