Xanthocarpia
Sign in to saveXanthocarpia is a genus of mostly crustose lichens in the family Teloschistaceae. It has 12 species with a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution.
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Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to Xanthocarpia, and connects out to Catalogue of Life, Index Fungorum and Giuseppe De Notaris.
Vinony files it under Lichen genera, Taxa described in 1853 and Taxa named by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo.
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GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderTeloschistales
- FamilyTeloschistaceae
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Xanthocarpia is a genus of mostly crustose lichens in the family Teloschistaceae. It has 12 species with a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution.
==Taxonomy== The genus was originally circumscribed in 1859 by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo and Giuseppe De Notaris, with Xanthocarpia ochracea as the type species. This species has tetralocular ascospores (i.e. divided into 4 chambers).
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