Microcalicium | |
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Microcalicium disseminatum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Pertusariales |
Family: |
Microcaliciaceae Tibell (1984) [1] |
Genus: |
Microcalicium Vain. (1927) |
Type species | |
Microcalicium disseminatum (
Ach.) Vain. (1927)
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Microcalicium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales. [2] It is the only genus in the monotypic family Microcaliciaceae. These taxa were circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1927, with Microcalicium disseminatum assigned as the type species. [3]
Species of Microcalicium have a mazaediate ascomata (an irregularly spherical fruiting body in which ascus walls break down to leave a dry, loose, amorphous, powdery, often dark, mass of spores together with disintegrating asci and paraphyses). Their asci are ellipsoid in shape and non- amyloid. [4]
As of July 2021 [update], Species Fungorum accepts the following four species in the genus Microcalicium: [5]