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Sagenidiopsis
Sign in to saveSagenidiopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. It was circumscribed in 1987 by lichenologists Roderick Rogers and Josef Hafellner to contain the type species S. merrotsii, found in Australia. The characteristic features of the genus include the byssoid (cottony) thallus and bitunicate asci (enclosed in a double wall) that lack amyloid structures that are apparent in the thallus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassArthoniomycetes
- OrderArthoniales
- FamilyRoccellaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 66
- With media
- 50
- Family
- Roccellaceae
- Collections
- NY, WIS, US, ASU, NHMUK, DUKE
- Recorded in
- New Zealand, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia, Brasil
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sagenidiopsis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Arthoniaceae. It was circumscribed in 1987 by lichenologists Roderick Rogers and Josef Hafellner to contain the type species S. merrotsii, found in Australia. The characteristic features of the genus include the byssoid (cottony) thallus and bitunicate asci (enclosed in a double wall) that lack amyloid structures that are apparent in the thallus.
==Description==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sagenidiopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.