Diplotomma
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| Diplotomma | |
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| Diplotomma chlorophaeum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Diplotomma Flot. (1849) |
| Type species | |
| Diplotomma alboatrum (Hoffm.) Flot. (1849) | |
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Diplotomma is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Caliciaceae.[2] The genus has a widespread distribution and contains 14 species. These lichens form firmly attached, crust-like patches that range from pale to dark grey and can appear smooth or cracked into an irregular mosaic pattern on their substrate. They produce black, disc-shaped fruiting bodies that start buried in the crust and later emerge to sit roughly flush with the surface, often dusted with a greyish-white powder.
The genus was circumscribed by Julius von Flotow in 1849.[3] It was later wrapped into Buellia before being segregated from that genus by David Hawksworth in 1980.[4]
