''Lillicoa'' 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
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 ...
in the family
Stictidaceae
The Stictidaceae are a family (biology), family of fungi in the order Ostropales. It has 30 genera and about 240 species.
Taxonomy
The family was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1849.
D ...
. It has four species.
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 mycologist Martha Sherwood in 1977, with ''
Lillicoa palicoureae'' assigned as the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
.
Species
*''
Lillicoa bicolor''
*''
Lillicoa palicoureae''
*''
Lillicoa speciosa''
*''
Lillicoa thaxteri''
References
Ostropales
Ostropales genera
Taxa described in 1977
Taxa named by Fred Jay Seaver
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