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Anaptychia
Sign in to saveAnaptychia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. Anaptychia species are foliose (leafy) to fruticose (bushy) lichens. They have brown, thin-walled spores with a single septum, and a upper .
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderCaliciales
- FamilyPhysciaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 801
- With media
- 312
- Family
- Physciaceae
- Collections
- COLO, VPI, TENN, VT, OSC
- Recorded in
- United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Physciaceae
- Image
- Anaptychia setifera-2.jpg
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- Anaptychia
- taxon name
- Anaptychia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Anaptychia ciliaris
- taxon common name
- ヒメゲジゲジゴケ属
- taxon author citation
- Körb.
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Anaptychia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. Anaptychia species are foliose (leafy) to fruticose (bushy) lichens. They have brown, thin-walled spores with a single septum, and a upper .
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in his 1848 work Grundriss der Kryptogamen-Kunde. In his 1962 monograph on the genus, Syo Kurokawa included 88 species. A few years later, Josef Poelt thought the genus should be divided into two genera – Anaptychia and Heterodermia – based largely on differences in spore structure. William Culberson supported this opinion, emphasizing the presence of distinct chemical characteristics between the two groups.
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