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Fibrillithecis

Fibrillithecis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 2006 by the German lichenologist Andreas Frisch, with Fibrillithecis vernicosa assigned as the type species.

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Fibrillithecis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Graphidales
Family: Graphidaceae
Genus: Fibrillithecis
Frisch (2006)
Type species
Fibrillithecis vernicosa
(Zahlbr.) Frisch (2006)
Species

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Fibrillithecis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.1 The genus was circumscribed in 2006 by the German lichenologist Andreas Frisch, with Fibrillithecis vernicosa assigned as the type species.2

Species

As of July 2024, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 15 species of Fibrillithecis:3

  • Fibrillithecis argentea (Müll.Arg.) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis carneodisca (Hale) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis confusa Lücking, Kalb & Rivas Plata (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis dehiscens (Leight.) Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch (2011)
  • Fibrillithecis diminita (Hale) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis eximia (R.C.Harris) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis fissurata (Nagarkar & Hale) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis gibbosa (H.Magn.) Rivas Plata & Lücking (2010)
  • Fibrillithecis halei (Tuck. & Mont.) Mangold (2009)
  • Fibrillithecis insignis (Zahlbr.) Frisch (2006)
  • Fibrillithecis inspersa Kalb (2009)
  • Fibrillithecis pachystoma (Nyl.) Sipman (2012)
  • Fibrillithecis platyspora (Harm.) Frisch (2006)
  • Fibrillithecis sprucei Mangold, Lücking & Lumbsch (2011)
  • Fibrillithecis vernicosa (Zahlbr.) Frisch (2006)
References

References

  1. Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. JSTOR 44250015. S2CID 90258634.
  2. Frisch, A. (2006). The lichen family Thelotremataceae in Africa. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 92. p. 92.
  3. "Fibrillithecis". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 17 July 2024.