''Sclerophyton'' is a genus 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 ...
-forming
fungi
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in the family
Opegraphaceae. It has about 15 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 lichenologist
Franz Gerhard Eschweiler in 1824, with ''
Sclerophyton elegans'' assigned as the
type species
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.
Species
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Sclerophyton aptrootii''
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Sclerophyton conspicuum''
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Sclerophyton elegans''
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Sclerophyton extenuatum''
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Sclerophyton fluorescens''
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Sclerophyton hillii''
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Sclerophyton indicum''
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Sclerophyton insularum''
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Sclerophyton madagascariense''
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Sclerophyton perithecioideum''
– Brazil
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Sclerophyton puncticulatum''
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Sclerophyton seriale''
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Sclerophyton stigmaticum''
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Sclerophyton syncesioides''
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Sclerophyton trinidadense''
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Sclerophyton vertex''
References
Opegraphaceae
Lichen genera
Arthoniomycetes genera
Taxa described in 1824
Taxa named by Franz Gerhard Eschweiler
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