Aphanopsis

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Aphanopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Aphanopsidaceae
Genus: Aphanopsis
Nyl. (1882)
Type species
Aphanopsis terrigena
(Ach.) J.Lahm (1885)
Species

A. terrigena
A. coenosa

Aphanopsis is a genus of lichens in the family Aphanopsidaceae. It was circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1882, with Aphanopsis terrigena as the type species.[1] Aphanopsis coenosa, originally described as Collema coenosum by Erik Acharius in 1810, was added to the genus in 1984.[2]

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