Calotrichopsis
Sign in to saveCalotrichopsis is a small genus of cyanolichens placed in the family Porocyphaceae. The genus was originally circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1896. A 2024 multilocus study of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and provisionally included Calotrichopsis in that family; earlier references had kept the genus in Lichinaceae. Species are minute, dark-coloured lichens partnered with cyanobacteria and are typically found on rock or soil in open, intermittently wet microhabitats. The family placement is considered tentative pending additional molecular samp
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Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Calotrichopsis, and connects out to Lichinales, Edvard August Vainio and fungi.
It is catalogued under topics including Lichen genera, Lichinomycetes and Lichinomycetes genera.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3
- Family
- Lichinaceae
- Collections
- UFRGS, UPS
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Paraguay, Brazil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Lichinaceae
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- taxon name
- Calotrichopsis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Calotrichopsis insignis
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Calotrichopsis is a small genus of cyanolichens placed in the family Porocyphaceae. The genus was originally circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1896. A 2024 multilocus study of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and provisionally included Calotrichopsis in that family; earlier references had kept the genus in Lichinaceae. Species are minute, dark-coloured lichens partnered with cyanobacteria and are typically found on rock or soil in open, intermittently wet microhabitats. The family placement is considered tentative pending additional molecular sampling.
==Species== Calotrichopsis filiformis Calotrichopsis granulosa Calotrichopsis insignis Calotrichopsis rivae
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