Lepidostroma
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| Lepidostroma | |
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| Lepidostroma vilgalysii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Lepidostromatales |
| Family: | Lepidostromataceae |
| Genus: | Lepidostroma Magd. & S.Winkl. (1967) |
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Lepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungal order Lepidostromatales).[1] The genus is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi (Multiclavula (Cantharellales), Ertzia (Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces (Lepidostromatales)) by having a distinctly squamulose thallus (similar to a 'Coriscium-type' thallus) with scattered to dense rounded to reniform squamules.[2] Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.