Absconditella Explained

Absconditella is a genus of lichenised fungi in the family Stictidaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1965 by Czech lichenologist Antonín Vězda, with Absconditella sphagnorum assigned as the type species. Absconditella is characterised by gyalectoid apothecia with a hymenium that is not amyloid, without a dark pigment and thalli containing green algae as photobionts. The genus name means "hidden", a reference to the scant structure of the thallus and its small apothecia.

Species

• Absconditella amabilis – Canada
• Absconditella annexa
• Absconditella antarctica – Antarctica
• Absconditella baegasanensis
• Absconditella celata – Lappland
• Absconditella delutula
• Absconditella duplicella
• Absconditella fossarum
• Absconditella lignicola
• Absconditella pauxilla
• Absconditella rosea – South America
• Absconditella rubra – Europe
• Absconditella sphagnorum
• Absconditella termitariicola – Brazil
• Absconditella trivialis
• Absconditella viridithallina – South America