''Phlyctis'' 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 ...
ized fungi in the order
Gyalectales
''Gyalectales'' is an order of lichen-forming fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains 5 families, 18 genera and about 550 species.
Taxonomy
The Gyalectales were introduced in a 1974 publication by Aino Henssen and Martin Jahns, but not ...
, and the
type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus (''genus typica'') is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearin ...
of the family
Phlyctidaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called blemished lichens.
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 German lichenologist
Julius von Flotow in 1850.
[ The ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (2008) estimated the widespread genus to contain 12 species,][ but several species have been described and added to the genus since then.
]
Species
*'' Phlyctis agelaea''
*'' Phlyctis argena''
*'' Phlyctis boliviensis''
References
Gyalectales
Lichen genera
Gyalectales genera
Taxa described in 1831
Taxa named by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth
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