Pycnothelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae.[2] Pycnothelia was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821;[3] it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a section of the now-defunct genus Cenomyce.

Pycnothelia
Pycnothelia papillaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Cladoniaceae
Genus: Pycnothelia
(Ach.) Dufour (1821)
Type species
Pycnothelia papillaria
(Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1985)
Species

P. caliginosa
P. mascarena
P. papillaria

Synonyms[1]
  • Cenomyce sect. Pycnothelia Ach. (1799)
  • Cladonia subgen. Pycnothelia (Ach.) Vain. (1926)
  • Papillaria J.Kickx f. (1835)
  • Pycnotheliomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Species

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References

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  1. ^ "Synonymy: Pycnothelia (Ach.) Dufour". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  2. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; Dolatabadi, S; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  3. ^ Dufour, J.L.M. (1821). "Révision des genres Cladonia, Scyphophorus, Helopodium et Baeomyces de la flore française". Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques (in French). 8: 41–73.