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Cyphelium
Sign in to saveCyphelium is a genus of crustose areolate lichens with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores. The genus is in the family Caliciaceae . The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species. Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 242
- With media
- 152
- Family
- Caliciaceae
- Collections
- FLAS, US, NY, MEL, WIS, USU
- Recorded in
- United States, Germany, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Caliciaceae
- Image
- Cyphelium inquinans-4.jpg
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- genus
- Commons category
- Cyphelium
- taxon name
- Cyphelium
- taxonomic type
- Cyphelium tigillare
- taxon common name
- soot lichen
- taxon author citation
- Ach.
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Cyphelium is a genus of crustose areolate lichens with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores. The genus is in the family Caliciaceae . The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species. Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.
==Species== Cyphelium brachysporum Cyphelium brunneum Cyphelium chloroconium Cyphelium inquinans Cyphelium karelicum Cyphelium lecideinum Cyphelium lucidum Cyphelium marcianum Cyphelium notarisii Cyphelium pinicola Cyphelium sessile Cyphelium tigillare Cyphelium trachylioides
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