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Wadeana
Sign in to saveWadeana is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the division Ascomycota. Its to other taxa within the division is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. The genus was established in 1978 by the British lichenologists Brian Coppins and Peter James, who named it after the veteran naturalist Arthur Edward Wade for his decades of work studying British lichens. These bark-dwelling lichens live almost completely hidden within the outer layers of tree bark and produce distinctive crack-like fruiting bodies with bright red-brown in
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyCatillariaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Catillariaceae
- Collections
- US
- Recorded in
- Sweden
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Description
- Habitat and distribution
- See also
- References
Wadeana is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the division Ascomycota. Its to other taxa within the division is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. The genus was established in 1978 by the British lichenologists Brian Coppins and Peter James, who named it after the veteran naturalist Arthur Edward Wade for his decades of work studying British lichens. These bark-dwelling lichens live almost completely hidden within the outer layers of tree bark and produce distinctive crack-like fruiting bodies with bright red-brown internal colouring.
==Taxonomy==
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