''Intralichen'' is a genus of

lichenicolous fungi A lichenicolous fungus is a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host. A lichenicolous fungus is not the same as the fungus that is the component of the lichen, which is known as a lichenized fungus. They are most commonly specific ...

of uncertain classification in the class

Ascomycota Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...

. It has four species. The genus was

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every po ...

David Leslie Hawksworth David Leslie Hawksworth (born 1946 in Sheffield, UK) is a British mycologist and lichenologist currently with a professorship in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and also a Scientific Associate of The Natural History Muse ...

and Mariette S. Cole in 2002, with '' Intralichen christiansenii'' as the type species.

Species

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Intralichen baccisporus ''Intralichen'' is a genus of lichenicolous fungi of uncertain classification in the class Ascomycota. It has four species. The genus was circumscribed by David Leslie Hawksworth David Leslie Hawksworth (born 1946 in Sheffield, UK) is a Brit ...

'' *'' Intralichen christiansenii'' *'' Intralichen lichenicola'' *'' Intralichen lichenum''

References

Ascomycota Ascomycota genera Taxa described in 2002 Lichenicolous fungi {{Ascomycetes-stub