Caliciales

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Caliciales is an order of mostly lichenized fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It consists of two families: Caliciaceae and Physciaceae, which together contain 54 genera and more than 1200 species.[1] The order was circumscribed by American botanist Charles Edwin Bessey in 1907.[2]

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Caliciales
The shrub stubble lichen (Allocalicium adaequatum)
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Subclass: Lecanoromycetidae
Order: Caliciales
Bessey (1907)
Families

Caliciaceae
Physciaceae

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Families and genera

As of October 2022, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 2 families, 56 genera, and 910 species in the Caliciales.[3]

Acolium – 5 spp.
Acroscyphus – 1 sp.
Allocalicium – 1 sp.
Amandinea – 83 spp.
Australiaena 1 sp.
Baculifera – 18 spp.
Buellia201 spp.
Calicium – 36 spp.
Chrismofulvea 3 spp.
Ciposia – 1 sp.
Cratiria – 23 spp.
Dermatiscum – 2 sp.
Dermiscellum – 1 sp.
Dimelaena – 10 spp.
Diploicia 6 spp.
Diplotomma – 12 spp.
Dirinaria – 18 spp.
Endohyalina 10 sp.
Fluctua 1 sp.
Gassicurtia – 30 spp.
Hafellia – 13 spp.
Hypoflavia – 3 spp.
Monerolechia – 5 spp.
Orcularia – 3 spp.
Pseudothelomma – 2 spp.
Pyxine – 44 spp.
Redonia – 1 sp.
Santessonia – 3 sp.
Sculptolumina – 5 spp.
Sphinctrinopsis 1 sp.
Stigmatochroma – 8 spp.
Tetramelas – 31 spp.
Texosporium 1 sp.
Thelomma – 2 spp.
Tholurna – 1 sp.
Tylophoropsis – 1 sp.
Anaptychia 5 spp.
Awasthia – 1 sp.
Coscinocladium – 2 spp.
Culbersonia – 1 sp.
Heterodermia – 49 spp.
Hyperphyscia – 7 spp.
Kashiwadia – 1 sp.
Leucodermia – 11 spp.
Mobergia – 1 sp.
Oxnerella – 1 sp.
Phaeophyscia 22 spp.
Phaeorrhiza – 1 sp.
Physcia – 43 spp.
Physciella – 4 spp.
Physconia – 15 spp.
Polyblastidium – 18 spp.
Rinodina132 spp.
Rinodinella – 3 spp.
Tornabea – 1 sp.

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