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Trypethelium

Trypethelium is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. The widespread genus contains about 50 species predominantly found in tropical areas. Trypethelium was circumscribed by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1804.

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Trypethelium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Trypetheliales
Family: Trypetheliaceae
Genus: Trypethelium
Spreng. (1804)
Type species
Trypethelium eluteriae
Spreng. (1804)
Species

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Synonyms1

Trypethelium is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Trypetheliaceae. The widespread genus contains about 50 species predominantly found in tropical areas.4 Trypethelium was circumscribed by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1804.

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References

  1. "Trypethelium Spreng. 1804". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. Trevisan V. (1861). "Synopsis generum Trypethelinarum". Flora (Regensburg) (in Latin). 44: 17–26.
  3. Ciferri R, Tomaselli R (1953). "Saggio di una sistematica micolichenologica". Atti dell'Istituto Botanico della Università e Laboratorio Crittogamico di Pavia. 5 (in Italian). 10 (1): 25–84.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 707. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  5. Flakus, Adam; Kukwa, Martin; Aptroot, André (2016). "Trypetheliaceae of Bolivia: an updated checklist with descriptions of twenty-four new species". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 661–692. doi:10.1017/s0024282915000559.
  6. Aptroot, André; Ferraro, Lidia Itatí; Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva (2014). "New pyrenocarpous lichens from NE Argentina". The Lichenologist. 46 (1): 95–102. doi:10.1017/s0024282913000716. hdl:11336/2873.
  7. Aptroot, André; Ertz, Damien; Etayo Salazar, Javier Angel; Gueidan, Cécile; Mercado Diaz, Joel Alejandro; Schumm, Felix; Weerakoon, Gothamie (2016). "Forty-six new species of Trypetheliaceae from the tropics". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 609–638. doi:10.1017/s002428291600013x. S2CID 89128070.
  8. Aptroot, André; Souza, Maria Fernanda; Spielmann, Adriano Afonso (2021). "Two new crustose Cladonia species with strepsilin and other new lichens from the Serra de Maracaju, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 42 (8): 137–148. doi:10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2021v42a8.
  9. Lücking, Robert; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Aptroot, André; Benatti, Michel N.; Binh, Nguyen Quoc; Gueidan, Cécile; Gutiérrez, Martha Cecilia; Jungbluth, Patricia; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Marcelli, Marcelo P.; Moncada, Bibiana; Naksuwankul, Khwanruan; Orozco, Thelma; Salazar-Allen, Noris; Upreti, Dalip K. (2016). "A pot-pourri of new species of Trypetheliaceae resulting from molecular phylogenetic studies". The Lichenologist. 48 (6): 639–660. doi:10.1017/s0024282916000475.