Cyphelium

Cyphelium

Cyphelium inquinans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Teloschistales
Family:	Caliciaceae
Genus:	Cyphelium Ach. (1815)
Type species
Cyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach. (1815)

Cyphelium is a genus of custose areolate lichenis with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores.^[1]^:258 The genus is in the Caliciaceae family. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species.^[2] Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.^[1]^:258

Species

Cyphelium brachysporum
Cyphelium brunneum
Cyphelium chloroconium
Cyphelium inquinans
Cyphelium karelicum
Cyphelium lecideinum
Cyphelium lucidum
Cyphelium marcianum
Cyphelium notarisii
Cyphelium pinicola
Cyphelium sessile
Cyphelium tigillare
Cyphelium trachylioides

References

1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

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