Fulvophyton
''Fulvophyton'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Roccellographaceae. It has 11 species. ''Fulvophyton'' is characterised by its crustose lichen, crust-like thallus, which is often pale yellowish-brown in colour. This genus features a from the green algal genus ''Trentepohlia (alga), Trentepohlia'' and exhibits a unique arrangement of reproductive structures. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2011 by lichenologists Damien Ertz and Anders Tehler, as part of a molecular phylogenetic-based restructuring of the order Arthoniales. The genus encompasses species that were previously classified in the genus ''Sclerophyton'', as proposed by Laurens Sparrius in 2004. However, these species deviate from the type species, type of that genus due to the presence of rounded to ellipsoid ascomata, which are often covered in white , and a hyaline or pale . The type species of ''Fulvophyton'' is ''Fulvophyton stalactinum, F. stalactinum'', a ...
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