Xalocoa
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Xalocoa Kraichak, Lücking & Lumbsch (2013) |
| Species: | X. ocellata
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| Xalocoa ocellata (Fr.) Kraichak, Lücking & Lumbsch (2013)
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Xalocoa is a single-species fungal genus in the family Graphidaceae.[2] The genus was circumscribed in 2013 by lichenologists Ekaphan Kraichak, Robert Lücking, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch. It contains Xalocoa ocellata, a corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen that was originally described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1831 (as Parmelia ocellata).[3]
Xalocoa belongs to the subfamily Graphidoidae, and tribe Thelotremateae in the Graphidaceae. The genus is characterized by its greyish-white thallus covered by an epinecral layer, large apothecioid ascomata with exposed discs and thick, entire thalline margins, as well as a thin, reduced, uncarbonised proper exciple that lacks lateral paraphyses. The genus features a non-inspersed hymenium, pale brown, non-amyloid ascospores, bacilliform conidia, and contains the norstictic acid chemosyndrome. The genus name Xalocoa originates from the Catalan term xaloc, which signifies the sirocco, a warm wind that comes from the Sahara and affects Mediterranean regions. The species epithet pays tribute to Xavier Llimona, a Catalan researcher known for his work on Mediterranean lichens and his contributions to the taxonomy of the genus Diploschistes.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Xalocoa ocellata (Fr.) Kraichak, Lücking & Lumbsch, Aust. Syst. Bot. 26(6): 472 (2014) [2013]". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "Xalocoa". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ a b Kraichak, Ekaphan; Parnmen, Sittiporn; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2013). "Gintarasia and Xalocoa, two new genera to accommodate temperate to subtropical species in the predominantly tropical Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota)". Australian Systematic Botany. 26 (6): 466. doi:10.1071/sb13038. S2CID 86384090.