Wetmoreana brouardii

Wetmoreana brouardii
on basalt, Santa Fe Island, Galápagos
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Teloschistales
Family:	Teloschistaceae
Genus:	Wetmoreana
Species:	W. brouardii
Binomial name
Wetmoreana brouardii (B.de Lesd.) Wilk & Søchting (2020)
Synonyms[1]
Placodium brouardii B.de Lesd. (1914) Caloplaca brouardii (B.de Lesd.) Zahlbr. (1931) Fulgogasparrea brouardii (B.de Lesd.) S.Y.Kondr. (2015)

Wetmoreana brouardii is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.^[2]

Taxonomy

It was first formally described as a new species in 1914 by French lichenologist Maurice Bouly de Lesdain, who classified it in the genus Placodium. In 1931, Alexander Zahlbruckner transferred it to Caloplaca,^[3] and it was known as a member of that genus for almost a century. In the 2000s several molecular phylogenetics studies showed that the large genus Caloplaca was polyphyletic, and several smaller genera were circumscribed to more appropriately reflect phylogenetic relationships in the Teloschistaceae. In 2015, Sergey Kondratyuk and colleagues proposed to move Caloplaca brouardii to the genus Fulgogasparrea. Katrina Wilk and Ulrik Søchting transferred it to the genus Wetmoreana in 2020.^[4]

Habitat and distribution

The lichen is widely distributed, having been found in Africa, North America, and South America (including the Galápagos Islands).^[4]

References

1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Wetmoreana brouardii (B. de Lesd.) Wilk & Søchting, in Bungartz, Søchting & Arup, Plant and Fungal Systematics 65(2): 562 (2020)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
2. "Wetmoreana brouardii (B. de Lesd.) Wilk & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
3. Zahlbruckner, A. (1931). Catalogus Lichenum Universalis (in Latin). Vol. 7. p. 220.
4. Bungartz, Frank; Søchting, Ulrik; Arup, Ulf (2020). "Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota) from the Galapagos Islands: a phylogenetic revision based on morphological, anatomical, chemical, and molecular data". Plant and Fungal Systematics. 65 (2): 515–576. doi:10.35535/pfsyst-2020-0030.