Diploschistes

Diploschistes
	Diploschistes scruposus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Ostropales
Family:	Thelotremataceae
Genus:	Diploschistes; Norman (1853)
Type species
	Diploschistes scruposus; (Schreb.) Norman (1853)
Species
	~43
Synonyms[1]
	Lectularia Stirt. (1878); Lagerheimina Kuntze (1891); Polyschistes J.Steiner (1898); Protoschistes M.Choisy (1928); Urceolariomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953); Diploschistomyces Werner (1976)

Diploschistes (crater lichen) is a genus of crustose lichens with a thick, cracked (areolate) body (thallus) with worldwide distribution.^[2]^:264^[3]^[4] The fruiting part (apothecia) are immersed in the thick thallus so as to have the appearance of being small "craters".^[2]^:264

It is in the family Thelotremataceae. The widespread genus contains about 43 species.^[5] Johannes Musæus Norman described the genus in an 1853 publication.^[6]

Selected species

Diploschistes actinostoma
Diploschistes almbornii
Diploschistes candidissimus
Diploschistes diacapis
Diploschistes farinosus
Diploschistes gyrophoricus
Diploschistes hensseniae
Diploschistes microsporus
Diploschistes scruposus

References

↑ "Diploschistes Norman 1853". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
↑ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
↑ Crater Lichen (Diploschistes), Encyclopedia of Life
↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
↑ Norman JM. "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae" (in Latin). 7: 213–52.

External links

Diploschistes in Index Fungorum

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[urlMycoBank:_Diploschistes-1] "Diploschistes Norman 1853". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-09-20.

[SSFGCL-2] 1 2 Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2

[USDA-3] USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search

[4] Crater Lichen (Diploschistes), Encyclopedia of Life

[Kirk2008-5] Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

[Norman1852-6] Norman JM. "Conatus praemissus redactionis novae generum nonnullorum Lichenum in organis fructificationes vel sporis fundatae" (in Latin). 7: 213–52.