Aptrootia
Genus of fungi
title: "Aptrootia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["trypetheliaceae", "lichen-genera", "dothideomycetes-genera", "taxa-named-by-robert-lücking", "taxa-described-in-2007", "taxa-named-by-harrie-sipman"] description: "Genus of fungi" topic_path: "general/trypetheliaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptrootia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of fungi ::
| taxon = Aptrootia | authority = Lücking & Sipman (2007) | type_species = Aptrootia terricola | type_species_authority = (Aptroot) Lücking, Umaña & Chaves (2007) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = A. elatior
Aptrootia is a genus of fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has four species. The genus was circumscribed by Robert Lücking and Harrie Sipman in 2007, with Aptrootia terricola assigned as the type species. This species, originally described by Dutch mycologist André Aptroot as a species of Thelenella, is known from Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica. Later molecular work showed that the species did not belong in Thelenella (Aptroot himself had expressed doubt about this generic placement), but rather, in the Trypetheliaceae, with a sister taxon relationship to a branch including Bathelium and a lineage containing Trypethelium floridanum. The new genus name honours Aptroot, "in recognition of his numerous contributions to tropical lichenology".
Species in genus Aptrootia have completely immersed perithecia with a brown-black ostiolar region. This is surrounded by a white, cartilaginous thallus reminiscent of those in family Gomphillaceae.
Species
- Aptrootia elatior (Stirt.) Aptroot (2009) – Australia
- Aptrootia khaoyaiensis Polyiam & Lücking (2024) – Thailand
- Aptrootia robusta (P.M.McCarthy & Kantvilas) Aptroot (2009) – Australia
- Aptrootia terricola (Aptroot) Lücking, L.Umaña & Chaves (2007) – Papua New Guinea; Costa Rica
References
References
- (1999). "''Thelenella terricola'', a new saprobic ascomycete from upland Papua New Guinea". Fungal Diversity.
- (2009). "Trypetheliales".
- (2007). "''Aptrootia'' (Dothideomycetes: Trypetheliaceae), a new genus of pyrenocarpous lichens for ''Thelenella terricola''". The Lichenologist.
- Polyiam, Wetchasart. (2024). "''Aptrootia khaoyaiensis'' (Trypetheliaceae), a new corticolous lichen from the dry dipterocarp forest in central Thailand". The Lichenologist.
- (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere.
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::