''Rhymbocarpus'' 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
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in the family
Cordieritidaceae
''Cordieritidaceae'' is a family of fungi in the order Cyttariales. Species in this family are saprobes or lichenicolous.
Description
The ascomata of Cordieritidaceae species are apothecial, and range in shape from disc-shaped, cup-shaped, ...
. It has 10 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 German mycologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf
Friedrich (or Friederich) Wilhelm Zopf (12 December 1846 – 24 June 1909) was a well-known German botanist and mycologist. He dedicated to his whole life with fungal biology, particularly in classification of fungi and dye production in fungi an ...
in 1896, with ''
Rhymbocarpus punctiformis'' assigned as the
type species
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.
Species
*''
Rhymbocarpus aggregatus''
– host: ''
Buellia griseovirens''
*''
Rhymbocarpus boomii''
– ''
Dirina ceratoniae
''Dirina ceratoniae'' is a species of crustose lichen in the family Roccellaceae. It is found in Europe, where it grows on both bark and on calcium-rich rock. The lichen was species description, formally described as a new species in 1810 by Swe ...
''
*''
Rhymbocarpus cruciatus'' – ''
Diploicia canescens''
*''
Rhymbocarpus ericetorum'' – on ''
Dibaeis baeomyces''
*''
Rhymbocarpus makarovae''
– ''
Porpidia''
*''
Rhymbocarpus neglectus'' – on the ''
Lepraria neglecta'' species group
*''
Rhymbocarpus pertusariae''
– on ''
Lepra panyrga''
*''
Rhymbocarpus pubescens''
– ''
Lepraria
''Lepraria'' is a genus of leprose (powdery) crustose lichens that grows on its substrate like patches of granular, caked up, mealy dust grains.A taxonomic revision of the North American species of Lepraria s.l. that produce divaricatic acid, w ...
''
*''
Rhymbocarpus punctiformis''
*''
Rhymbocarpus roccellae'' – ''
Roccella Roccella may refer to:
* Roccella Valdemone, a municipality in Sicily, Italy
* Roccella Ionica (or Roccella Jonica), a municipality in Calabria, Italy
* The lichen genus '' Roccella'', known for the species ''Roccella tinctoria
''Roccella tinct ...
''
Host
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Host may also refer to:
Places
* Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
* Host Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
People
* ...
information is from Diederich (2018).
Former ''Rhymbocarpus'' species:
*''Rhymbocarpus elachistophorus'' is now ''
Skyttea elachistophora''
*''Rhymbocarpus fuscoatrae'' is now ''
Llimoniella fuscoatrae''
*''Rhymbocarpus gregarius'' is now ''
Skyttea gregaria''
*''Rhymbocarpus nitschkei'' is now ''
Skyttea nitschkei''
*''Rhymbocarpus stereocaulorum'' is now ''
Llimoniella stereocaulorum
''Llimoniella'' is a genus of fungi in the family Cordieritidaceae. The genus was circumscribed by the lichenologists Josef Hafellner and Père Navarro-Rosinés in 1993.
The genus name of ''Llimonaea'' is in honour of Xavier Llimona (1943 - x), ...
''
References
Leotiomycetes
Leotiomycetes genera
Taxa described in 1896
Taxa named by Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf
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