''Pycnothelia'' is a

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of lichen-forming

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in the family Cladoniaceae. ''Pycnothelia'' was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally

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Erik Acharius Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology." Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus. Life Ac ...

in 1799 as a

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of the now-defunct genus ''Cenomyce''.

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Pycnothelia caliginosa ''Pycnothelia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. ''Pycnothelia'' was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a s ...

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Pycnothelia mascarena ''Pycnothelia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. ''Pycnothelia'' was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a s ...

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Pycnothelia papillaria ''Pycnothelia'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. ''Pycnothelia'' was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribe ...

References

Cladoniaceae Lichen genera Lecanorales genera Taxa described in 1821 Taxa named by Léon Jean Marie Dufour {{Lecanorales-stub