''Seirophora'' 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 ...
-forming
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
Teloschistaceae
The Teloschistaceae are a large family (biology), family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class (taxonomy), class Lecanoromycetes in the division (botany), division Ascomycota. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, althoug ...
. It has eight species.
The genus was
circumscribed by German lichenologist
Josef Poelt in 1983, with ''
Seirophora magara'' 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 ...
.
Several species were transferred to ''Seirophora'' in 2004 when the genus was emended by Patrik Frödén and Per Lassen to include some species segregated from ''
Teloschistes''.
Species
,
Species Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (Binomial nomenclature, scientific names) in the fungus Kingdom (biology), kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partn ...
(in the
Catalogue of Life
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxono ...
) accepts eight species of ''Seirophora''.
* ''
Seirophora austroarabica''
* ''
Seirophora blumii''
* ''
Seirophora californica''
* ''
Seirophora lacunosa''
* ''
Seirophora magara''
* ''
Seirophora scorigena''
* ''
Seirophora stenophylla''
* ''
Seirophora tenera''
* ''
Seirophora villosa''
References
Teloschistales
Teloschistales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa named by Josef Poelt
Taxa described in 1983
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