Biology:Cyphelium

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Short description: Genus of lichens


Cyphelium
Cyphelium inquinans-4.jpg
Cyphelium inquinans
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Caliciales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Cyphelium
Ach. (1815)
Type species
Cyphelium tigillare
(Ach.) Ach. (1815)

Cyphelium is a genus of crustose areolate lichens with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores.[1]:258 The genus is in the family Caliciaceae . The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species.[2] Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.[1]:258

Species

  • Cyphelium brachysporum
  • Cyphelium brunneum
  • Cyphelium chloroconium
  • Cyphelium inquinans
  • Cyphelium karelicum
  • Cyphelium lecideinum
  • Cyphelium lucidum
  • Cyphelium marcianum
  • Cyphelium notarisii
  • Cyphelium pinicola
  • Cyphelium sessile
  • Cyphelium tigillare
  • Cyphelium trachylioides

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN:978-0-300-19500-2
  2. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 

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