Phyllobaeis
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| Phyllobaeis | |
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| Phyllobaeis imbricata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Baeomycetales |
| Family: | Baeomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Phyllobaeis Kalb & Gierl (1993) |
| Type species | |
| Phyllobaeis imbricata (Hook.) Kalb & Gierl (1993) | |
| Species | |
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P. crustacea | |
Phyllobaeis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Baeomycetaceae. It has six species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by lichenologists Klaus Kalb and Claudia Gierl in 1993, with Phyllobaeis imbricata assigned as the type species.[2] Phyllobaeis differs from Baeomyces by the production of the secondary chemical norstictic acid, as well as the tropical distribution of its species. Most species have a squamulose thallus, but the most recent addition to the genus–the Chinese species P. crustacea–has a crustose thallus.[3]
