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Lepidostroma
Sign in to saveLepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungal order Lepidostromatales). The genus is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi (Multiclavula (Cantharellales), Ertzia (Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces (Lepidostromatales)) by having a distinctly thallus (similar to a 'Coriscium-type' thallus) with scattered to dense rounded to squamules. Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.
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Thalloid Clublichen
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderLepidostromatales
- FamilyLepidostromataceae
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Lepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungal order Lepidostromatales). The genus is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi (Multiclavula (Cantharellales), Ertzia (Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces (Lepidostromatales)) by having a distinctly thallus (similar to a 'Coriscium-type' thallus) with scattered to dense rounded to squamules. Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.
==Species== Lepidostroma calocerum Lepidostroma rugaramae Lepidostroma vilgalysii Lepidostroma winklerianum