Sclerophyton
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| Sclerophyton | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | Opegraphaceae |
| Genus: | Sclerophyton Eschw. (1824) |
| Type species | |
| Sclerophyton elegans Eschw. (1824) | |
| Species | |
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Sclerophyton is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae. It has about 15 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Franz Gerhard Eschweiler in 1824, with Sclerophyton elegans assigned as the type species.[2]
