Cameronia (lichen)

{{Short description|Genus of lichens}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | taxon = Cameronia | parent_authority = Kantvilas & Lumbsch (2012) | authority = Kantvilas (2011) | type_species = Cameronia pertusarioides | type_species_authority = Kantvilas (2011) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''C. pertusarioides''<br /> ''C. tecta'' }}

'''''Cameronia''''' is a genus of crustose lichens in the monotypic family '''Cameroniaceae'''. It has two species.<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2022"/> Both the genus and its two species were described as new to science in 2011 by Australian lichenologist Gintaras Kantvilas. Characteristics of the genus include its chlorococcalean photobiont partner, and perithecioid ascomata that are deeply immersed in the substrate. Microscopic features of ''Cameronia'' include the four-spored asci with an intensely hemiamyloid outer wall and non-amyloid, well-developed tholus (the thickened inner part of the ascus tip), and hyaline, muriform ascospores (i.e., divided into multiple chambers by transverse and longitudinal septa). Both species are endemic to the Tasmanian Highlands.<ref name="Kantvilas 2011"/>

The family Cameroniaceae was proposed by Kantvilas and H. Thorsten Lumbsch a year later, after molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that ''Cameronia'' belonged in the Ostropomycetidae. It was originally placed in this subclass with an uncertain (incertae sedis) ordinal position,<ref name="Lumbsch et al. 2012"/> but the Cameroniaceae is now classified in the order Baeomycetales.<ref name="Wijayawardene et al. 2022"/>

==Species== *''Cameronia pertusarioides'' {{small|Kantvilas (2011)}} *''Cameronia tecta'' {{small|Kantvilas (2011)}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Kantvilas 2011">{{cite journal |last=Kantvilas |first=Gintaras |title=''Cameronia'' (lichenized Ascomycetes), a remarkable new alpine genus from Tasmania |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=44 |issue=1 |year=2011 |doi=10.1017/s0024282911000569 |pages=91–100|s2cid=85414106 }}</ref>

<ref name="Lumbsch et al. 2012">{{cite journal |last1=Lumbsch |first1=H. Thorsten |last2=Kantvilas |first2= Gintaras |last3=Parnmen |first3= Sittiporn |year=2012 |title=Molecular data support placement of ''Cameronia'' in Ostropomycetidae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota) |journal=MycoKeys |volume=5 |pages=31–44 |doi=10.3897/mycokeys.5.4140 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

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Category:Baeomycetales Category:Lichen genera Category:Baeomycetales genera Category:Taxa described in 2012 Category:Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas