Dictyonema tricolor

Dictyonema tricolor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Hygrophoraceae
Genus:	Dictyonema
Species:	D. tricolor
Binomial name
	Dictyonema tricolor; Lücking & Timdal (2016)

Dictyonema tricolor is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] It is found in Tanzania, where it grows as an epiphyte on trees. The lichen was formally described as a new species by lichenologists Robert Lücking and Einar Timdal. The type specimen was collected by Norwegian Hildur Krog from a low montane rainforest in Lulandu Forest, (Iringa Urban District, Southern Highlands) at an elevation of 2,000 m (6,600 ft). The species epithet refers to the three-colours displayed where the regularly ascending tufts of blue-green cyanobacterial fibrils meet the brown or white colour in the apical part of the tufts.[2]

Dictyonema tricolor is a member of the Dictyonema sericeum species complex, a group of species sharing similar overall morphology, including shelf-like, filamentous lobes.[2]

References

"Dictyonema tricolor Lücking & Timdal". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
Lücking, Robert; Timdal, Einar (2016). "New species of Dictyonema and Cyphellostereum (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from tropical Africa and the Indian Ocean, dedicated to the late Hildur Krog". Willdenowia. 46 (1): 191–199. doi:10.3372/wi.46.46115. ISSN 0511-9618.

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[CoL-1] "Dictyonema tricolor Lücking & Timdal". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

[Lücking_&_Timdal_2016-2] Lücking, Robert; Timdal, Einar (2016). "New species of Dictyonema and Cyphellostereum (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from tropical Africa and the Indian Ocean, dedicated to the late Hildur Krog". Willdenowia. 46 (1): 191–199. doi:10.3372/wi.46.46115. ISSN 0511-9618.