Sérusiaux E. & Lücking R.
(2003):
The lichen genus Caprettia Bat. & H. Maia (Monoblastiaceae),
Bibliotheca Lichenologica,
86: 161-176
The lichen genus Caprettia Bat. & H. Maia is reassessed, and its extraordinary mean of expelling its conidia in mucilagineous sacci through long cilia-like pycnidia is described. Such features are otherwise only known in Anisomeridium polypori (Ellis & Everh.) Barr and in another, undescribed species of the same genus. Caprettia is included in the Monoblastiaceae, and the relationships with several species currently placed in dium remain to be clarified. The genus Porinula Vězda is reduced into …
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