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Anthracothecium
Sign in to saveAnthracothecium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Pyrenulaceae. It comprises five species of crustose, bark-dwelling, lichens in the tropics and subtropics, and that in the current sense the genus is diagnosed by young ascospores that are euseptate (true septa) and remain mostly euseptate when mature, contrasting with Pyrenula, where and thickened is the norm. The ascomata (fruiting bodies) are (blackened and charcoal-like), usually simple or aggregated in predictable ways, and ostioles may be apical or lateral depending on species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderPyrenulales
- FamilyPyrenulaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 373
- With media
- 421
- Family
- Pyrenulaceae
- Collections
- WIS, NY, US, COLO
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Australia, Guyana, Mexico, United States, Cuba, St. Lucia, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pyrenulaceae
- Image
- Anthracothecium prasinum - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
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- taxon author citation
- Hampe ex A. Massal.
- taxon name
- Anthracothecium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- anthracothecium lichen
- Commons category
- Anthracothecium
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Habitat and distribution
- Species
- References
Anthracothecium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Pyrenulaceae. It comprises five species of crustose, bark-dwelling, lichens in the tropics and subtropics, and that in the current sense the genus is diagnosed by young ascospores that are euseptate (true septa) and remain mostly euseptate when mature, contrasting with Pyrenula, where and thickened is the norm. The ascomata (fruiting bodies) are (blackened and charcoal-like), usually simple or aggregated in predictable ways, and ostioles may be apical or lateral depending on species.
==Taxonomy==
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