Marcelaria

Marcelaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Trypetheliales
Family:	Trypetheliaceae
Genus:	Marcelaria; Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen (2013)
Type species
	Marcelaria purpurina; (Nyl.) Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen (2013)
Species
	M. benguelensis; M. cumingii; M. purpurina

Marcelaria is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Trypetheliaceae. It has three species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed in 2013 by André Aptroot, Matthew P. Nelsen, and Sittiporn Parnmen, with Marcelaria purpurina assigned as the type species. The genus contains species that were previously in the Laurera purpurina species group. Species in Marcelaria contain secondary compounds such as red, orange, and yellow anthraquinones, and sometimes lichexanthone. The genus name honours Brazilian lichenologist Marcela Cáceres.^[2]

Species

Marcelaria benguelensis (Müll.Arg.) Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen (2013) – continental southeast Asia
Marcelaria cumingii (Mont.) Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen (2013) – southeast Asia
Marcelaria purpurina (Nyl.) Aptroot, Nelsen & Parnmen (2013) – neotropics; tropical West Africa

^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
^ Aptroot, A.; Nelsen, M.P.; Parnmen, S. (2013). "Marcelaria, a new genus for the Laurera purpurina group in the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes)". Glalia. 5 (2): 1–14.

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