Microcalicium
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Microcalicium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.[1] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Microcaliciaceae. These taxa were circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1927, with Microcalicium disseminatum assigned as the type species.[2]
Description
Species of Microcalicium have a mazaediate ascomata (an irregularly spherical fruiting body in which ascus walls break down to leave a dry, loose, amorphous, powdery, often dark, mass of spores together with disintegrating asci and paraphyses). Their asci are ellipsoid in shape and non-amyloid.[3]
Species
As of May 2024[update]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., Species Fungorum accepts the following five species in the genus Microcalicium:[4]
- Microcalicium ahlneri Tibell (1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Microcalicium arenarium (Hampe ex A.Massal.) Tibell (1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[6]
- Microcalicium conversum Tibell (1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Microcalicium disseminatum (Ach.) Vain. (1927)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2]
- Microcalicium loraasii Holien & Frisch (2022)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[6]
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- Pertusariales
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