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Psilolechia
Sign in to savePsilolechia is a genus of four species of crustose lichens. It is the only member of Psilolechiaceae, a family that was created in 2014 to contain this genus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLecanoromycetes
- OrderLecanorales
- FamilyPsilolechiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 11
- Family
- Psilolechiaceae
- Collections
- NY, WIS, ASU, UMFK, MEL, SRP
- Recorded in
- Canada, Brazil, United States, Australia, China, Sweden, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pilocarpaceae (1905)
- Image
- Psilolechia lucida Koad Krenn - Pont Callec.jpg
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- taxon name
- Psilolechia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Wortelkorst
- taxonomic type
- Psilolechia lucida
- Commons category
- Psilolechia
- taxon author citation
- A. Massal.
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Psilolechia is a genus of four species of crustose lichens. It is the only member of Psilolechiaceae, a family that was created in 2014 to contain this genus.
==Taxonomy== The genus Psilolechia was established by Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1860. Formerly classified in the family Pilocarpaceae (now Ectolechiaceae), molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that Psilolechia represented a distinct lineage that deserved placement at the familial level, the Psilolechiaceae, which was formally circumscribed in 2014. This arrangement was accepted in later large-scale updates of fungal classification. Psilolechiaceae is in the order Lecanorales, in the suborder Sphaerophorineae, which also includes the families Ectolechiaceae, Psoraceae, and Ramalinaceae.
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