Caliciales is an order of mostly lichenized fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It consists of two families: Caliciaceae and Physciaceae, which together contain 54 genera and more than 1200 species. The order was circumscribed by American botanist Charles Edwin Bessey in 1907.
Caliciales is an order of mostly lichenized fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It consists of two families: Caliciaceae and Physciaceae, which together contain 54 genera and more than 1200 species. The order was circumscribed by American botanist Charles Edwin Bessey in 1907.
==Families and genera== , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 2 families, 56 genera, and 910 species in the Caliciales. Caliciaceae Acolium – 5 spp. Acroscyphus – 1 sp. Allocalicium – 1 sp. Amandinea – 83 spp. Australiaena – 1 sp. Baculifera – 18 spp. Buellia – 201 spp. Calicium – 36 spp. Chrismofulvea – 3 spp. Ciposia – 1 sp. Cratiria – 23 spp. Dermatiscum – 2 sp. Dermiscellum – 1 sp. Dimelaena – 10 spp. Diploicia – 6 spp. Diplotomma – 12 spp. Dirinaria – 18 spp. Endohyalina – 10 sp. Fluctua – 1 sp. Gassicurtia – 30 spp. Hafellia – 13 spp. Hypoflavia – 3 spp. Monerolechia – 5 spp. Orcularia – 3 spp. Pseudothelomma – 2 spp. Pyxine – 44 spp. Redonia – 1 sp. Santessonia – 3 sp. Sculptolumina – 5 spp. Sphinctrinopsis – 1 sp. Stigmatochroma – 8 spp. Tetramelas – 31 spp. Texosporium – 1 sp. Thelomma – 2 spp. Tholurna – 1 sp. Tylophoropsis – 1 sp. Physciaceae Anaptychia – 5 spp. Awasthia – 1 sp. Coscinocladium – 2 spp. Culbersonia – 1 sp. Heterodermia – 49 spp. Hyperphyscia – 7 spp. Kashiwadia – 1 sp. Leucodermia – 11 spp. Mobergia – 1 sp. Oxnerella – 1 sp. Phaeophyscia – 22 spp. Phaeorrhiza – 1 sp. Physcia – 43 spp. Physciella – 4 spp. Physconia – 15 spp. Polyblastidium – 18 spp. Rinodina – 132 spp. Rinodinella – 3 spp. Tornabea – 1 sp.
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