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Megalospora
Sign in to saveMegalospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megalosporaceae.
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Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to Megalospora, and connects out to fungi, lichen and Franz Meyen.
Vinony files it under Lichen genera, Taxa described in 1843 and Taxa named by Franz Meyen.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 387
- With media
- 207
- Family
- Megalosporaceae
- Collections
- F, US, WIS, COLO
- Recorded in
- Thailand, Australia, United States, Samoa, Venezuela, Guatemala, Malaysia, Chile
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cucurbitariaceae
- Image
- Megalospora porphyritis - Flickr - pellaea (1).jpg
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- Megalospora
- taxon rank
- genus
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- Megalospora
- taxon author citation
- Meyen
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Description
- Species
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Megalospora is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Megalosporaceae.
==Taxonomy== The genus was circumscribed in 1843 by Prussian botanist Franz Meyen, with Megalospora sulphurata assigned as the type, and at that time, only species. The genus was then largely defined on the basis of the structure of the apothecia.
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