Diploschistes
''Diploschistes'' (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting part (apothecia) are immersed in the thick thallus so as to have the appearance of being small "craters". It is in the family Thelotremataceae. The widespread genus contains about 43 species. Johannes Musæus Norman described the genus in 1853. Selected species *'' Diploschistes actinostomus'' *'' Diploschistes aeneus'' *'' Diploschistes albopruinosus'' *'' Diploschistes almbornii'' *'' Diploschistes caesioplumbeus'' *'' Diploschistes candidissimus'' *'' Diploschistes cinereocaesius'' *'' Diploschistes conceptionis'' *'' Diploschistes diacapsis'' *'' Diploschistes diploschistoides'' *'' Diploschistes elixii'' *'' Diploschistes euganeus'' *'' Diploschistes farinosus'' *'' Diploschistes gypsaceus'' *'' Diploschistes gyrophoricus'' * ...
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