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Dimelaena

Dimelaena is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens, or moonglow lichens. They are placodioid crustose lichens, ranging in form from rimose to areolate. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.

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Dimelaena
Dimelaena oreina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Caliciales
Family: Caliciaceae
Genus: Dimelaena
Norman (1852)
Type species
Dimelaena oreina
(Ach.) Norman (1853)
Synonyms
  • Dimelaena sect. Dimelaena Norman (1852)
  • Beltraminia Trevis. (1857)

Dimelaena is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae.1: 260  Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens,2 or moonglow lichens.1: 260  They are placodioid crustose lichens, ranging in form from rimose to areolate.1 The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.3

Species

  • Dimelaena australiensis H.Mayrhofer & Sheard (1984)
  • Dimelaena elevata Elix, Kalb & Wippel (1996)
  • Dimelaena ewersii Elix (2017)
  • Dimelaena lichenicola K.Knudsen, Sheard, Kocourk. & H.Mayrhofer (2013)
  • Dimelaena mayrhoferiana Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2018)
  • Dimelaena oreina (Ach.) Norman (1852)
  • Dimelaena radiata (Tuck.) Müll.Arg. (1884
  • Dimelaena subsquamulosa Giralt, H.Mayrhofer, van den Boom & Elix (2014)
  • Dimelaena tenuis (Müll.Arg.) H.Mayrhofer & Wippel (1996)
  • Dimelaena triseptata Aptroot (2008)
References

References

  1. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. Name Search Results for Scientific Name Dimelaena, USDA
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.