Diploschistes

Diploschistes
Diploschistes scruposus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Ostropales
Family: Thelotremataceae
Genus: Diploschistes
Norman (1853)
Type species
Diploschistes scruposus
(Schreb.) Norman (1853)
Synonyms[1]

Lectularia Stirt. (1878)
Lagerheimina Kuntze (1891)
Polyschistes J.Steiner (1898)
Protoschistes M.Choisy (1928)
Urceolariomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)
Diploschistomyces Werner (1976)

Diploschistes (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.[2]:264[3][4] The fruiting part (apothecia) are immersed in the thick thallus so as to have the appearance of being small "craters.[2]:264

It is in the family Thelotremataceae. The widespread genus contains about 43 species.[5] Johannes Musæus Norman described the genus in an 1853 publication.[6]

Selected species

References

  1. "Diploschistes Norman 1853". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
  2. 1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
  4. Crater Lichen (Diploschistes), Encyclopedia of Life
  5. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  6. Norman JM. "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae" (in Latin) 7: 213–52.

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