Diploschistes

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Diploschistes
Diploschhistes scruposus.jpg
Diploschistes scruposus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Ostropales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Diploschistes
Norman (1853)
Type species
Diploschistes scruposus
(Schreb.) Norman (1853)
Species

~43

Synonyms[1]

Diploschistes (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.[2]: 264 [3][4] The fruiting part (apothecia) are immersed in the thick thallus so as to have the appearance of being small "craters".[2]: 264 

It is in the family Thelotremataceae. The widespread genus contains about 43 species.[5] Johannes Musæus Norman described the genus in 1853.[6]

Selected species

References

  1. ^ "Diploschistes Norman 1853". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
  2. ^ a b Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. ^ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
  4. ^ Crater Lichen (Diploschistes), Encyclopedia of Life
  5. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  6. ^ Norman JM. (1852). "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae". Nytt Magazin for Naturvidenskapene [New Magazine for the Natural Sciences] (in Latin). 7: 213–52.

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