Scleropyrenium
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| Scleropyrenium | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Verrucariales |
| Family: | Verrucariaceae |
| Genus: | Scleropyrenium H.Harada (1993) |
| Type species | |
| Scleropyrenium japonicum H.Harada (1993) | |
| Species | |
Scleropyrenium is a genus of squamulose (scaly) lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. It has two species.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1993 by Japanese lichenologist Hiroshi Harada, with S. japonicum as the type species. Characteristics of the genus include a dark brown to almost black exciple (the rim of tissue around the hymenium), pycnidia of the Staurothele-type, and a pachydermatous upper cortex.[2]
