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Fulgensia
Sign in to saveFulgensia is a fungal genus in the family Teloschistaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo and Giuseppe De Notaris in 1853, with Fulgensia vulgaris assigned as the type species. Although the genus has had several species in it at times in its taxonomic history, it is now monotypic, as most of its former species have been transferred to Gyalolechia or other Teloschistaceae genera.
Species
Scrambled Egg Lichen
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderTeloschistales
- FamilyTeloschistaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 97
- With media
- 52
- Family
- Teloschistaceae
- Collections
- US, COLO, ASU, UAM, DUKE, BRY
- Recorded in
- Croatia, United States, Libya, France, Canada, Austria, Australia, Yugoslavia [Defunct]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Teloschistaceae
- Image
- Fulgensia fulgens Plouharnel 2010-01-16.jpg
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- taxon author citation
- A. Massal & De Not.
- taxon name
- Fulgensia
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Fulgensia
- taxon common name
- sulphur lichen
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Fulgensia is a fungal genus in the family Teloschistaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo and Giuseppe De Notaris in 1853, with Fulgensia vulgaris assigned as the type species. Although the genus has had several species in it at times in its taxonomic history, it is now monotypic, as most of its former species have been transferred to Gyalolechia or other Teloschistaceae genera.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fulgensia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.