Pycnothelia

{{Short description|Genus of lichens in the family Cladoniaceae}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pycnothelia papillaria 971808.jpg

| image_caption = Pycnothelia papillaria

| taxon = Pycnothelia

| authority = (Ach.) Dufour (1821)

| type_species = Pycnothelia papillaria

| type_species_authority = (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1985)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = P. caliginosa

P. mascarena

P. papillaria

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms = *Cenomyce sect. Pycnothelia {{small|Ach. (1799)}}

Cladonia subgen. Pycnothelia {{small|(Ach.) Vain. (1926)}}
Papillaria {{small|J.Kickx f. (1835)}}
Pycnotheliomyces {{small|Cif. & Tomas. (1953)}}

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Pycnothelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. Pycnothelia was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a section of the now-defunct genus Cenomyce.

Species

Pycnothelia caliginosa {{small|D.J.Galloway & P.James (1987)}}
Pycnothelia mascarena {{small|(Nyl.) Nyl. ex Leight. (1866)}}
Pycnothelia papillaria {{small|(Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1895)}}

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Dufour |first1=J.L.M. |year=1821 |title=Révision des genres Cladonia, Scyphophorus, Helopodium et Baeomyces de la flore française |journal=Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques |volume=8 |pages=41–73 |language=fr}}

{{cite web |title=Synonymy: Pycnothelia (Ach.) Dufour |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=4573 |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=24 December 2020}}

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Category:Cladoniaceae

Category:Lichen genera

Category:Lecanorales genera

Category:Taxa described in 1821

Category:Taxa named by Léon Jean Marie Dufour