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Byssoloma
Sign in to saveByssoloma is a genus of leaf-dwelling lichens in the family Ectolechiaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyByssolomataceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 243
- With media
- 117
- Family
- Byssolomataceae
- Collections
- US, WIS, MEL, UC
- Recorded in
- Guyana, French Guiana, Jamaica, Kenya, Tanzania, Australia, Costa Rica, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pilocarpaceae (1905)
- Image
- Byssoloma leucoblepharum - Flickr - pellaea.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Byssoloma
- taxon common name
- byssoloma lichen
- Commons category
- Byssoloma
- taxon author citation
- Trevis.
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Description
- Species
- References
Byssoloma is a genus of leaf-dwelling lichens in the family Ectolechiaceae.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed by the Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1853.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byssoloma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.