''Ampliotrema'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...
-forming fungi in the family
Graphidaceae
The Graphidaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Graphidales. The family contains nearly a hundred genera and more than 2000 species. Although the family has a cosmopolitan distribution, most Graphidaceae species occur in tropic ...
.
The genus was originally described
invalidly in 2004,
and validly two years later.
Species
,
Species Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...
(in the
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...
) accepts 12 species of ''Ampliotrema'':
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Ampliotrema amplius''
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Ampliotrema auratum''
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Ampliotrema cocosense''
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Ampliotrema dactylizum''
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Ampliotrema discolor''
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Ampliotrema lepadinoides''
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Ampliotrema megalostoma''
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Ampliotrema palaeoamplius''
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Ampliotrema panamense''
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Ampliotrema rimosum''
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Ampliotrema sanguineum''
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Ampliotrema sorediatum''
References
Graphidaceae
Lichen genera
Graphidales genera
Taxa named by Klaus Kalb
Taxa described in 2006
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