Endococcus

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Endococcus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Lichenotheliales
Family: Lichenotheliaceae
Genus: Endococcus
Nyl. (1855)
Type species
Endococcus rugulosus
(Borrer ex Leight.) Nyl. (1855)
Species

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Endococcus is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855.[2] Although at least one source places the genus in the Verrucariaceae, a 2016 study of the type species, Endococcus rugulosus, determined that it should instead be placed in the family Lichenotheliaceae of the order Dothideales;[3] this classification echoes a placement proposed in 1979 by David Hawksworth.[4]

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