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Hemigrapha
Sign in to saveHemigrapha is a genus of fungi in the family Hemigraphaceae. The genus was established in 1975 and currently includes nine recognised species. These fungi are parasites that grow on other lichens, producing distinctive flat, star-shaped or elongated black fruiting bodies on their host's surface.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassDothideomycetes
- OrderAsterinales
- FamilyHemigraphaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Hemigraphaceae
- Collections
- NY, MSC
- Recorded in
- Jamaica
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Parmulariaceae
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- taxon name
- Hemigrapha
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Hemigrapha asteriscus
- taxon author citation
- (Müll. Arg.) R. Sant. ex D. Hawksw.
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Hemigrapha is a genus of fungi in the family Hemigraphaceae. The genus was established in 1975 and currently includes nine recognised species. These fungi are parasites that grow on other lichens, producing distinctive flat, star-shaped or elongated black fruiting bodies on their host's surface.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hemigrapha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.