The Agyriaceae are a
family
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of
lichenized fungi in the order
Pertusariales
The Pertusariales are an order of fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains the following families: Agyriaceae, Coccotremataceae, Icmadophilaceae, Megasporaceae, Microcaliciaceae, Ochrolechiaceae, Pertusariaceae, Varicellariaceae, and ...
. It contains two genera: ''
Agyrium'', and ''
Miltidea''.
The family was
circumscribed
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Not every po ...
by
August Carl Joseph Corda
August Carl Joseph Corda (1809–1849) was a Czech physician and mycologist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name.
Early life and education
Corda was born in Reichenberg (now Liberec), Bohemia on ...
in 1838.
In 2018, using a
molecular phylogenetic
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approach coupled with a technique known as "temporal banding", Kraichak and colleagues proposed to fold the family Miltideaceae into the Agyriaceae.
A close genetic relationship between these two families had previously been noted. The proposal to subsume Miltideaceae into the Agyriaceae was accepted in a later critical analysis of the temporal banding technique for fungal classification.
References
Pertusariales
Lichen families
Lecanoromycetes families
Taxa named by August Carl Joseph Corda
Taxa described in 1838
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