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Scleropyrenium

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Scleropyrenium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Verrucariales
Family: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Scleropyrenium
H.Harada (1993)
Type species
Scleropyrenium japonicum
H.Harada (1993)
Species

S. japonicum
S. kurokawae

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]

References

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  1. ^ Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378.
  2. ^ Harada, Hiroshi (1993). "A taxonomic study on Dermatocarpon and its allied genera (Lichenes, Verrucariaceae) in Japan". Natural History Research. 2 (2): 113–152.