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Thermutis
Sign in to saveThermutis is a small genus of cyanolichens in the family Porocyphaceae. It was formerly treated in Lichinaceae, but a 2024 multilocus re-classification of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and included Thermutis there. Species are minute, dark lichens with , often gelatinous to thalli that occur on rock or soil in open, periodically wet microhabitats. Their sexual structures commonly develop as ; the asci are and the ascospores and colourless.
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- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassLichinomycetes
- OrderLichinales
- FamilyLichinaceae
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- Thermutis
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- thermutis lichen
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Thermutis is a small genus of cyanolichens in the family Porocyphaceae. It was formerly treated in Lichinaceae, but a 2024 multilocus re-classification of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and included Thermutis there. Species are minute, dark lichens with , often gelatinous to thalli that occur on rock or soil in open, periodically wet microhabitats. Their sexual structures commonly develop as ; the asci are and the ascospores and colourless.
The genus comprises two species: Thermutis compacta and Thermutis velutina.