Biology:Sclerophyton

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Short description: Genus of lichen

Sclerophyton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Family: Opegraphaceae
Genus: Sclerophyton
Eschw. (1824)
Type species
Sclerophyton elegans
Eschw. (1824)
Species

See text

Sclerophyton is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae. It has about 15 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Franz Gerhard Eschweiler in 1824, with Sclerophyton elegans assigned as the type species.[2]

Species

  • Sclerophyton aptrootii Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton conspicuum A.W.Archer (2003)[3]
  • Sclerophyton elegans Eschw. (1824)
  • Sclerophyton extenuatum (Nyl.) Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton fluorescens Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton hillii A.W.Archer (2003)[3]
  • Sclerophyton indicum Makhija & Adaw. (2002)[4]
  • Sclerophyton insularum A.W.Archer (2003)[3]
  • Sclerophyton madagascariense Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton perithecioideum Aptroot (2022)[5] – Brazil
  • Sclerophyton puncticulatum P.M.McCarthy & Elix (2018)
  • Sclerophyton seriale (Ach.) Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton stigmaticum (Kremp.) Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton syncesioides Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton trinidadense Sparrius (2004)
  • Sclerophyton vertex Sparrius (2004)

References

  1. ↑ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. 
  2. ↑ Eschweiler, F.G. (1824) (in la). Systema Lichenum, Genera Exhibens rite distincta, Pluribus Novis Adaucta. pp. 1–26. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Archer, A.W. (2003). "New species in the genus Sclerophyton (Ascomycota, Opeographaceae) from Australia and the Solomon Islands". Mycotaxon 87: 85–89. 
  4. ↑ Makhija, Urmila; Adawadkar, Bharati (2002). "The lichen genus Sclerophyton in India". The Lichenologist 34 (4): 347–350. doi:10.1006/lich.2002.0405. 
  5. ↑ Aptroot, André; de Souza, Maria Fernanda; dos Santos, Lidiane Alves; Junior, Isaias Oliveira; Barbosa, Bruno Micael Cardoso; da Silva, Marcela Eugenia Cáceres (2022). "New species of lichenized fungi from Brazil, with a record report of 492 species in a small area of the Amazon Forest". The Bryologist 125 (3): 435–467. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-125.3.433. 

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