Caprettia
Sign in to saveCaprettia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Monoblastiaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Augusto Chaves Batista and Heraldo da Silva Maia in 1965, with Caprettia amazonensis assigned as the type species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassDothideomycetes
- OrderMonoblastiales
- FamilyMonoblastiaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Monoblastiaceae
- Collections
- F, MCN, UFS
- Recorded in
- Taiwan, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Monoblastiaceae
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- taxon name
- Caprettia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Bat. & H. Maia
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Caprettia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Monoblastiaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Augusto Chaves Batista and Heraldo da Silva Maia in 1965, with Caprettia amazonensis assigned as the type species.
The genus name of Caprettia is in honour of Corrado Capretti (1915–1960), an Italian botanist and professor at University of the Andes (Venezuela) in 1956.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caprettia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.