''Lichenoconium'' is a
genus
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of
lichenicolous (
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 ...
-dwelling)
fungi
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
belonging to the family
Lichenoconiaceae.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Franz Petrak
Franz Petrak (9 October 1886, Mährisch-Weißkirchen – 9 October 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian-Czech mycologist.
From 1906 to 1910, he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Richard Wettstein. In 1913, he obtai ...
and
Hans Sydow
Hans Sydow (29 January 1879 – 6 June 1946) was a German mycologist and the son of mycologist and lichenologist, Paul Sydow (1851–1925).
Career
Hans Sydow worked at the Dresdner Bank in Berlin between 1904 and 1937 rising to divisional mana ...
in 1927, with ''
Lichenoconium lichenicola'' assigned as the
type species
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.
Species
The genus has a
cosmopolitan distribution
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.
,
Species Fungorum
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accepts 16 species in ''Lichenoconium'':
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Lichenoconium aeruginosum''
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Lichenoconium cargillianum''
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Lichenoconium christiansenii''
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Lichenoconium echinosporum
''Lichenoconium'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi belonging to the family Lichenoconiaceae.
The genus was circumscribed by Franz Petrak and Hans Sydow in 1927, with '' Lichenoconium lichenicola'' assigned as the type spe ...
''
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Lichenoconium edgewoodense''
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Lichenoconium erodens''
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Lichenoconium follmannii''
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Lichenoconium hawksworthii''
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Lichenoconium laevisporum''
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Lichenoconium lecanorae''
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Lichenoconium lichenicola''
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Lichenoconium parasiticum''
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Lichenoconium plectocarpoides''
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Lichenoconium pyxidatae''
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Lichenoconium reichlingii''
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Lichenoconium usneae''
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Lichenoconium xanthoriae''
References
Dothideomycetes
Lichenicolous fungi
Taxa named by Franz Petrak
Taxa named by Hans Sydow
Taxa described in 1927
Dothideomycetes genera
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