Caloplaca Th. Fr.
(a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens)

Interactions where Caloplaca is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season	Summary
		may be infected and damaged by more or less completely immersed perithecium			Muellerella lichenicola	a lichenicolous fungus	Verrucariales: Verrucariaceae	A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Eurotiomycetes/Verrucariales/Verrucariaceae/Muellerella lichenicola/	Muellerella lichenicola	a lichenicolous fungus		more or less completely immersed		perithecium	Lichen / pathogen		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens								more or less completely immersed perithecium infects and damages
apothecium		apothecium may support perithecium			Sphaerellothecium parietinarium	a lichenicolous fungus	Capnodiales: Mycosphaerellaceae	Sphaerellothecium parietinarium, Cannon, P.F., 2015	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Dothideomycetes/Capnodiales/Mycosphaerellaceae/Sphaerellothecium parietinarium/	Sphaerellothecium parietinarium	a lichenicolous fungus				perithecium	Lichen / symbiont			/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens			apothecium					perithecium lives on/in apothecium
apothecium		apothecium is parasitised by pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph			Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete		A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lichenodiplis lecanorae/	Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete			pycnidium	Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph	Lichen / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens			apothecium					pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph parasitises apothecium
apothecium		apothecium may support pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph			Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete		A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lichenodiplis lecanorae/	Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete			pycnidium	Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph	Lichen / symbiont		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens			apothecium					pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph lives on/in apothecium
thallus		thallus is parasitised by perithecium			Verrucula latericola	A lichenicolous lichen	Verrucariales: Verrucariaceae	A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Eurotiomycetes/Verrucariales/Verrucariaceae/Verrucula latericola/	Verrucula latericola	A lichenicolous lichen				perithecium	Lichen / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens	?		thallus					perithecium parasitises thallus
thallus		thallus is parasitised by pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph			Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete		A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lichenodiplis lecanorae/	Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete			pycnidium	Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph	Lichen / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens			thallus		Minor			pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph parasitises thallus
thallus		thallus may support pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph			Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete		A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lichenodiplis lecanorae/	Lichenodiplis lecanorae	a lichenicolous coelomycete			pycnidium	Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph	Lichen / symbiont		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens			thallus		Minor			pycnidium of Lichenodiplis coelomycetous anamorph lives on/in thallus
thallus		thallus is parasitised by perithecium			Nectria epicallopisma	A lichenicolous pyrenomycete	Hypocreales: Nectriaceae	A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles, Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Sordariomycetes/Hypocreales/Nectriaceae/Nectria epicallopisma/	Nectria epicallopisma	A lichenicolous pyrenomycete				perithecium	Lichen / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Fungi/Ascomycota/Lecanoromycetes/Teloschistales/Teloschistaceae/Caloplaca/	Caloplaca	a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens	?		thallus					perithecium parasitises thallus

Author & Year	Title	Source
Cannon, P.F., 2015	Sphaerellothecium parietinarium	IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria Sheet 18x9
Hawksworth, D.L., 1983	A Key to the Lichen-forming, Parasitic, Parasymbiotic and Saprophytic Fungi occurring on Lichens in the British Isles	44pp, The British Lichen Society

Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Lichenes
(lichens)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Subtaxon				Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of interactions	No of references
Caloplaca arcis a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca aurantia a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca austrocitrina a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca calcitrapa a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca cerina a lichen				Species	1 subtaxa	3 trophisms	1 references
Caloplaca cirrochroa a lichen				Species		1 trophisms
Caloplaca citrina s. lat. a species sensu lato of lichens				Species sensu lato		1 trophisms
Caloplaca dichroa a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca flavescens a lichen				Species			2 references
Caloplaca flavocitrina a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca limonia a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca phlogina a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca saxicola a lichen				Species		1 trophisms
Caloplaca soralifera a lichen				Species			1 references
Caloplaca teicholyta a lichen				Species		3 trophisms

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens)
Family	TELOSCHISTACEAE (a family of lichens)
Order	TELOSCHISTALES (an order of lichens)
Subclass	LECANOROMYCETIDAE (a subclass of lichens)
Class	LECANOROMYCETES (a class of lichens)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Caloplaca is also a member of:
Lichenes - lichens (via Lecanoromycetidae)
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens)

Identification Works

Handling & Magnification	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Anon.		Welcome friends of lichenology!	botanika.bf.jcu.cz/lichenologyindex.php?pg=5
	Vondrák, J.		The taxonomy of the Caloplaca citrina group (Teloschistaceae) in the Black Sea region; with contributions to the cryptic species problems in lichenology (includes a key to the saxicolous species occurring on coastal cliffs in the Black Sea region.	.
Extralimital
	Vondrák, J.		Caloplaca concreticola (Teloschistaceae), a new species from anthropogenic substrata in Eastern Europe	.

Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Lichenes
(lichens)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

General Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Vondrák, J.	2008	The lichen genus Caloplaca (Teloschistales) and its lichenicolous fungi: contributions to their taxonomy, nomenclature and biodiversity	botanika.prf.jcu.cz/thesis/pdf/VondrakJ_PhD08.pd
Pathology
Vondrák, J.		New lichenicolous Opegrapha species on Caloplaca from Europe	.
Regional Lists
Vondrák, J.		Contribution to the lichenized and lichenicolous fungi in Bulgaria. II, the genus Caloplaca	.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Caloplaca (a genus of placodioid and crustose lichens):

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Lichenes
(lichens)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

BioImages

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