Microcalicium

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Microcalicium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.[2] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Microcaliciaceae. These taxa were circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1927, with Microcalicium disseminatum assigned as the type species.[3]

Division:Ascomycota
Class:Lecanoromycetes
Order:Pertusariales
Family:Microcaliciaceae
Tibell (1984)[1]
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Microcalicium
Microcalicium disseminatum
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Microcaliciaceae
Tibell (1984)[1]
Genus: Microcalicium
Vain. (1927)
Type species
Microcalicium disseminatum
(Ach.) Vain. (1927)
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Description

Species of Microcalicium have a mazaediate ascomata (an irregularly spherical fruiting body in which ascus walls break down to leave a dry, loose, amorphous, powdery, often dark, mass of spores together with disintegrating asci and paraphyses). Their asci are ellipsoid in shape and non-amyloid.[4]

Species

As of May 2024, Species Fungorum accepts the following five species in the genus Microcalicium:[5]

  • Microcalicium ahlneri Tibell (1978)[6]
  • Microcalicium arenarium (Hampe ex A.Massal.) Tibell (1978)[7]
  • Microcalicium conversum Tibell (1978)[6]
  • Microcalicium disseminatum (Ach.) Vain. (1927)[3]
  • Microcalicium loraasii Holien & Frisch (2022)[7]

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