Biology:Placocarpus

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Placocarpus
Placocarpus schaereri Jymm.jpg
Placocarpus schaereri
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placocarpus
Trevis. (1860)
Type species
Placocarpus schaereri
(Fr.) Breuss (1985)
Species

P. americanus
P. schaereri

Placocarpus is a genus of lichens in the family Verrucariaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1860.[2]

References

  1. "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58. 2007. http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 
  2. Trevisan de St-Léon VBA. (1860) (in la). Conspectus Verrucarinarum. Prospetto dei Generi e delle Specie de Licheni Verrucarini. Antonio Roberti, Bassano. p. 19. 

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