Heterodermia

{{Short description|Genus of lichen}}

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| image_caption =Heterodermia speciosa

| taxon = Heterodermia

| authority = Trevis. (1868)

| type_species = Heterodermia speciosa

| type_species_authority = (Wulfen) Trevis. (1868)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = *Pseudophyscia Müll.Arg. (1894)

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Heterodermia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Physciaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in tropical regions, and contains about 80 species.

Description

Heterodermia are subterranean or almost upright leaf lichens with a bearing diameter of up to 10 centimeters. Their top is pale greenish, whitish or pale greyish, many species are ciliolate on the edge. The underside is white, tan or orange with pale or dark rhizines.

Lichenoverruculina is lichenicolous (a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host) and is found under the thallus of various Heterodermia species.{{cite web |last1=Chethana |first1=Thilini |title=Lichenoverruculina - Facesoffungi number: FoF 13226 |url=https://www.facesoffungi.org/lichenoverruculina/ |website=Faces Of Fungi |access-date=11 February 2023 |date=29 October 2022}}

Distribution

The genus Heterodermia has about 80 species a large area of distribution, especially in the tropics.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;{{cite web |title=Heterodermia - Search Page |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Heterodermia |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=11 February 2023}}

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Former species (all still placed within the Physciaceae family);

References

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{{cite web |title=Synonymy: Heterodermia Trevis. |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=2316 |publisher=Species Fungorum. CAB International |accessdate=2014-10-05}}

{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |edition=10th |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008|page=314|isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}

{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}

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Category:Caliciales genera

Category:Caliciales

Category:Lichen genera

Category:Taxa named by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Category:Taxa described in 1868

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