Blastenia

Blastenia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.^[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1852 by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo.^[2][3]

Blastenia
Blastenia ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Teloschistales
Family:	Teloschistaceae
Genus:	Blastenia A.Massal.
Type species
Blastenia ferruginea (Huds.) A.Massal. (1852)

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.^[1]

Species

As of January 2024^[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 29 species of Blastenia.^[4]

• Blastenia afroalpina Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia ammiospila (Wahlenb. ex Ach.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia anatolica Halıcı, Arup & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia carnella (Nyl.) Müll.Arg. (1889)
• Blastenia catalinae (H.Magn.) E.D.Rudolph (2015)
• Blastenia caucasica I.V.Frolov & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia circumpolaris Søchting, Frödén & Arup (2013)
• Blastenia coralliza (Arup & Åkelius) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia crenularia (With.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia endochromoides Müll. Arg. (1894)
• Blastenia ferruginea (Huds.) A.Massal. (1852)
• Blastenia festivella (Nyl.) Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia furfuracea (H.Magn.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia gennargentuae Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia hungarica (H.Magn.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia keroblasta Zahlbr. (1906)
• Blastenia lauri Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia macquariensis C.W.Dodge (1968)
• Blastenia monticola Arup & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia palmae Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia psychrophila Halıcı & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia pulcherrima Müll.Arg. (1888)
• Blastenia purpurea Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia relicta Arup & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia remota Obermayer & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia scabrosa (Søchting, Lorentsen & Arup) S.Y. Kondr. & Hur (2014)
• Blastenia subathallina (H.Magn.) Arup & Vondrák (2019)^[5]
• Blastenia subochracea (Wedd.) Arup, Søchting & Frödén (2013)
• Blastenia xerothermica Vondrák, Arup & I.V.Frolov (2019)^[5]