Placocarpus

Placocarpus is a genus of lichens in the family Verrucariaceae.[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1860.[2]

Placocarpus
Placocarpus schaereri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placocarpus
Trevis. (1860)
Type species
Placocarpus schaereri
(Fr.) Breuss (1985)
Species

P. americanus
P. schaereri

References
  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 1–58.
  2. Trevisan de St-Léon VBA. (1860). Conspectus Verrucarinarum. Prospetto dei Generi e delle Specie de Licheni Verrucarini (in Latin). Antonio Roberti, Bassano. p. 19.


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