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Placopyrenium
Sign in to savePlacopyrenium is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderVerrucariales
- FamilyVerrucariaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 57
- With media
- 40
- Family
- Verrucariaceae
- Collections
- NY, COLO, UC, ASU, SBBG, BRY
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Mexico, Croatia, Norway, Czech Republic
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Verrucariaceae
- Image
- Placopyrenium canellum Jymm.jpg
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- taxon name
- Placopyrenium
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Breuss
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Encyclopedic overview
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Placopyrenium is a genus of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens in the family Verrucariaceae.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 1987 by the Austrian lichenologist Othmar Breuss. He assigned Placopyrenium bucekii as the type species.
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