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Oropogon
Sign in to saveOropogon is a genus of lichen-forming ascomycetes in the large family Parmeliaceae. It is a genus of roughly 40 currently accepted species. It was previously included in the family Alectoriaceae, but this group has since been subsumed into the Parmeliaceae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyParmeliaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 324
- With media
- 94
- Family
- Parmeliaceae
- Collections
- US, LSU, WIS, DUKE, ASU, F
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Jamaica, Guatemala, Japan, China, Malaysia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Parmeliaceae
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- taxon name
- Oropogon
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- genus
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Oropogon is a genus of lichen-forming ascomycetes in the large family Parmeliaceae. It is a genus of roughly 40 currently accepted species. It was previously included in the family Alectoriaceae, but this group has since been subsumed into the Parmeliaceae.
All members of the genus have a fruticose growth form. The most obvious distinguishing feature character which separates Oropogon from the rest of the family is the large brown, muriform ascospores (i.e. with transverse and longitudinal walls) that occur singly in each ascus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oropogon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.