Ophioparmaceae

Ophioparmaceae
Ophioparma ventosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Umbilicariales
Family:	Ophioparmaceae R.W.Rogers & Hafellner (1988)
Type genus
Ophioparma Norman (1852)
Genera
Boreoplaca Hypocenomyce Ophioparma

The Ophioparmaceae are a small family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Umbilicariales.[1] The family was circumscribed in 1988 by lichenologists Roderick Westgarth Rogers and H. Thorsten Lumbsch.[2]

Genera

• Boreoplaca Timdal (1994)[3] – 1 sp.
• Hypocenomyce M.Choisy (1951) – 3 spp.
• Ophioparma Norman (1852) – 9 spp.

The type specimen of Rhizoplacopsis weichingii has been shown to be identical with that of Boreoplaca ultrafrigida, so the genus Rhizoplacopsis has been subsumed into Boreoplaca.[4]

References

1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; 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.
2. Rogers, R. W.; Hafellner, J. (2007). "Haematomma and Ophioparma: Two superficially similar genera of lichenized fungi". The Lichenologist. 20 (2): 167–174. doi:10.1017/S0024282988000179.
3. Timdal, E. (1994). "Boreoplaca ultrafrigida, a new lichen genus and species from continental Siberia". Mycotaxon. 51: 503–508.
4. Davydov, Evgeny A.; Wei, Jiang-Chun (2009). "Boreoplaca ultrafrigida (Umbilicariales), the correct name for Rhizoplacopsis weichingii". Mycotaxon. 108: 301–305. doi:10.5248/108.301.