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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.

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  1. KingdomFungi
  2. PhylumAscomycota
  3. ClassLecanoromycetes
  4. OrderCaliciales

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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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