Pleopsidium

Pleopsidium
Pleopsidium flavum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Acarosporales
Family: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Pleopsidium
Körb. (1855)
Type species
Pleopsidium flavum
Körb. (1855)
Species

P. chlorophanum
P. flavum
P. gobiense
P. stenosporum

Synonyms[1]

Gussonea Tornab. (1848)
Acarosporomyces Cif. & Tomas.
Biatorellopsis C.W.Dodge (1965)[2]

Pleopsidium is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Acarosporaceae. The widespread genus, which contains four species,[3][4] was circumscribed by lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855.[5]

References

  1. "Synonyms: Pleopsidium Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 113 (1855)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  2. Dodge CW. (1965). "Lichenological notes on the flora of the Antarctic continent. VI. New taxa from the Antarctic continent and adjacent islands". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 84: 507–29. doi:10.2307/3224798.
  3. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 546. ISBN 9780851998268.
  4. Knudsen K. (2011). "A preliminary Study of Pleopsidium stenosporum (Stizenb. ex Hasse) K. Knudsen" (PDF). Opuscula Philolichenum 9: 77–83.
  5. Körber GW. (1855). Systema lichenum Germaniae (in Latin). Breslau, Germany: Trewendt & Granier. p. 113.

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