Diploschistes

Diploschistes
Diploschistes scruposus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Ostropales
Family: Thelotremataceae
Genus: Diploschistes
Norman (1853)
Type species
Diploschistes scruposus
(Schreb.) Norman (1853)
Species

~43

Synonyms[1]

Lectularia Stirt. (1878)
Lagerheimina Kuntze (1891)
Polyschistes J.Steiner (1898)
Protoschistes M.Choisy (1928)
Urceolariomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)
Diploschistomyces Werner (1976)

Diploschistes (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.[2]:264[3][4] The fruiting part (apothecia) are immersed in the thick thallus so as to have the appearance of being small "craters.[2]:264

It is in the family Thelotremataceae. The widespread genus contains about 43 species.[5] Johannes Musæus Norman described the genus in an 1853 publication.[6]

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ "Diploschistes Norman 1853". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
  2. 1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  3. ↑ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
  4. ↑ Crater Lichen (Diploschistes), Encyclopedia of Life
  5. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  6. ↑ Norman JM. "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae" (in Latin). 7: 213–52.
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