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Thermutis
Sign in to saveThermutis is a small genus of cyanolichens in the family Porocyphaceae. It was formerly treated in Lichinaceae, but a 2024 multilocus re-classification of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and included Thermutis there. Species are minute, dark lichens with , often gelatinous to thalli that occur on rock or soil in open, periodically wet microhabitats. Their sexual structures commonly develop as ; the asci are and the ascospores and colourless.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLichinomycetes
- OrderLichinales
- FamilyLichinaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 32
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Lichinaceae
- Collections
- US, DUKE, ASU, UPS, NY, CUP
- Recorded in
- Guatemala, United States, South Africa, Philippines, France, India, Malaysia, Martinique
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lichinaceae
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- taxon name
- Thermutis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- thermutis lichen
- taxonomic type
- Thermutis velutina
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Thermutis is a small genus of cyanolichens in the family Porocyphaceae. It was formerly treated in Lichinaceae, but a 2024 multilocus re-classification of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and included Thermutis there. Species are minute, dark lichens with , often gelatinous to thalli that occur on rock or soil in open, periodically wet microhabitats. Their sexual structures commonly develop as ; the asci are and the ascospores and colourless.
The genus comprises two species: Thermutis compacta and Thermutis velutina.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thermutis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.