Calotrichopsis
Genus of lichens
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Calotrichopsis is a small genus of cyanolichens placed in the family Porocyphaceae. The genus was originally circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1896.[1] A 2024 multilocus study of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and provisionally included Calotrichopsis in that family; earlier references had kept the genus in Lichinaceae. Species are minute, dark-coloured lichens partnered with cyanobacteria and are typically found on rock or soil in open, intermittently wet microhabitats. The family placement is considered tentative pending additional molecular sampling.[2]
| Calotrichopsis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lichinomycetes |
| Order: | Lichinales |
| Family: | Porocyphaceae |
| Genus: | Calotrichopsis Vain. (1890) |
| Type species | |
| Calotrichopsis insignis Vain. (1890) | |
| Species | |
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C. filiformis | |
