Bogoriella thelena
species of lichen
Bogoriella thelena is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Trypetheliaceae. This widespread tropical lichen forms creamy to whitish crusty patches bordered by dark lines on tree bark and produces solitary, small dark fruiting bodies that are sometimes surrounded by a fringe. It has a broad distribution among tropical lichens, being found across the Americas from Costa Rica to Brazil, as well as in the West Indies, Philippines, and Hawaiian Islands.
Taxonomy
Bogoriella thelena was first described in 1814 by Erik Acharius as Verrucaria thelena. It was later transferred to Microthelia by Trevisan in 1860, and then placed in Mycomicrothelia by David Hawksworth in 1985. In 2016, André Aptroot and Robert Lücking reassigned it to the genus Bogoriella, giving the species its present name. The holotype is preserved in Acharius's herbarium in Helsinki (H-ACH 692B).
Several other names are now considered synonyms of this species. Microthelia albidella, described by Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1883 from Brazil, is based on a specimen housed in Geneva (G). Edvard Vainio introduced Microthelia thelena var.
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