Ophioparmaceae

Ophioparmaceae

Ophioparmaceae

Family of lichens


The Ophioparmaceae are a small family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Umbilicariales.[1] The family was circumscribed in 1988 by lichenologists Roderick Westgarth Rogers and H. Thorsten Lumbsch.[2]

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Genera

  • Boreoplaca Timdal (1994)[3] – 1 sp.
  • Hypocenomyce M.Choisy (1951) – 3 spp.
  • Ophioparma Norman (1852) – 9 spp.
  • Rhizoplacopsis J.C.Wei & Q.M.Zhou (2006)[4] – 1 sp.

References

  1. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  2. Rogers, R. W.; Hafellner, J. (2007). "Haematomma and Ophioparma: Two superficially similar genera of lichenized fungi". The Lichenologist. 20 (2): 167–174. doi:10.1017/S0024282988000179.
  3. Zhou, Qiming; Wei, Jiangchun (2006). "A new genus and species Rhizoplacopsis weichingii in a new family Rhizoplacopsidaceae". Mycosystema. 25 (3): 376–385.



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