Pycnothelia

Pycnothelia
Pycnothelia papillaria
Scientific 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)

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.

Species

• Pycnothelia caliginosa D.J.Galloway & P.James (1987)
• Pycnothelia mascarena (Nyl.) Nyl. ex Leight. (1866)
• Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1895)

References

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.