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Polyblastia
Sign in to savePolyblastia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. As of 2020, it consists of about 40 species combined with about 50 orphaned species. The main difference with the genus Verrucaria is related to spores, which are muriform in Polyblastia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassEurotiomycetes
- OrderVerrucariales
- FamilyVerrucariaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 304
- With media
- 164
- Family
- Verrucariaceae
- Collections
- US, DUKE, COLO
- Recorded in
- France, China, Switzerland, United States, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Czech Republic, Czechia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Verrucariaceae
- Image
- Polyblastia sp.jpg
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- taxon author citation
- A. Massal.
- taxon name
- Polyblastia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Kalkstippelkorst
- taxonomic type
- Polyblastia cupularis
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Polyblastia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Verrucariaceae. As of 2020, it consists of about 40 species combined with about 50 orphaned species. The main difference with the genus Verrucaria is related to spores, which are muriform in Polyblastia.
==Species== 28 species, as accepted by Species Fungorum; Polyblastia agraria Polyblastia albida Polyblastia aurantia Polyblastia aurorae Polyblastia australis Polyblastia baltica Polyblastia borealis Polyblastia cataractae Polyblastia cupularis Polyblastia dermatodes Polyblastia dimidiata Polyblastia efflorescens Polyblastia fusca Polyblastia gothica Polyblastia helvetica Polyblastia inconspicua Polyblastia inumbrata Polyblastia media Polyblastia neglecta Polyblastia nevoi Polyblastia nordinii Polyblastia philaea Polyblastia potamophila Polyblastia pulchra Polyblastia quartzina Polyblastia sendtneri Polyblastia singularis Polyblastia verrucosa
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyblastia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.