Pallidogramme
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| Pallidogramme | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Graphidales |
| Family: | Graphidaceae |
| Genus: | Pallidogramme Staiger, Kalb & Lücking (2008) |
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Pallidogramme is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae.[2] It has 8 species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichens.
Pallidogramme was proposed in 2008 by the lichenologists Bettina Staiger, Klaus Kalb, and Robert Lücking, as a replacement name for Leucogramma A.Massal. The justification for this change originated from the previously established Hemithecium subgen. Leucogramma by Staiger in 2002. There was, however, a pre-existing generic name, Leucogramma A.Massal., which was based on the same species as Staiger's subgenus, Hemithecium chrysenteron. Both of these names were unusable at the genus level due to their homonymy with Leucogramma G.Mey. a name with unknown taxonomic affinity. As a result, a new name was deemed necessary to avoid confusion and maintain nomenclatural clarity.[3]