Specimen image via iDigBio · BY
Heteroplacidium
Sign in to saveHeteroplacidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Othmar Breuss in 1996 with Heteroplacidium imbricatum assigned as the type species. It was proposed as a segregate of Catapyrenium. Other morphologically similar genera are Neocatapyrenium, Placidium, and Scleropyrenium, although molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are independent monophyletic lineages within the Verrucariaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderVerrucariales
- FamilyVerrucariaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Verrucariaceae
- Collections
- NY, BRY, COLO, UPS
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Verrucariaceae
- Image
- Placidium acarosporoides - Flickr - pellaea (1).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- taxon name
- Heteroplacidium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Heteroplacidium imbricatum
- Commons category
- Heteroplacidium
- taxon author citation
- Breuss
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
Heteroplacidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. The genus was circumscribed by Austrian lichenologist Othmar Breuss in 1996 with Heteroplacidium imbricatum assigned as the type species. It was proposed as a segregate of Catapyrenium. Other morphologically similar genera are Neocatapyrenium, Placidium, and Scleropyrenium, although molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are independent monophyletic lineages within the Verrucariaceae.
Most Heteroplacidium species are autonomous lichens, generally crustose and areolate. Four species in the genus are obligate parasites or facultatively lichenicolous – H. compactum, H. fusculum, H. transmutans, and H. zamenhofianum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heteroplacidium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.