Bacidia

Bacidia is a lichenized genus of fungi in the family Ramalinaceae. The genus was first described by Giuseppe De Notaris in 1846. Species in the genus are crust-like lichens with stemless apothecia; they have green algae (chloroccoid) as photobionts. Their asci have 8 colorless, cylindrical to acicular, multiseptate spores, with curved and thread-like conidia.[2]

Bacidia
Herbarium specimen of Bacidia schweinitzii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Lecanoromycetes
Order:
Lecanorales
Family:
Ramalinaceae
Genus:
Bacidia

De Not.[1]
Type species
Bacidia rosella
(Pers.) De Not.

References
  1. De Notaris G. (1846). "Frammenti lichenografici di un lavoro inedito". Giornale botanico Italiano (in Italian). 2 (1): 174–224.
  2. "BACIDIA De Not". Lichens of the Ozarks. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
  • Cross section of an apothecium of B. schweinitzii, photographed through a compound microscope (x1000), showing a green epihymenium and a dark reddish brown hypothecium
  • Acicular spore of B. schweinitzii, 65 x 6 micrometres, photographed through a compound microscope, x1000


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