''Bathelium'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
lichen-forming
fungi
A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
in the family
Trypetheliaceae
The Trypetheliaceae are a family of mainly lichen-forming fungi in the order Trypetheliales.
Genera
*'' Alloarthopyrenia'' – 1 sp.
*''Aptrootia'' – 3 spp.
*'' Architrypethelium'' – 8 spp.
*''Astrothelium'' – ca. 275 spp.
*'' Bathel ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every polyg ...
in 1803 by Swedish lichenologist
Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology." Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus.
Life
Acharius was born in 1 ...
, with ''
Bathelium mastoideum'' assigned as the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...
.
Species
*''
Bathelium albidoporum''
*''
Bathelium austroafricanum''
*''
Bathelium boliviense''
– Bolivia
*''
Bathelium carolinianum''
*''
Bathelium compositum''
*''
Bathelium connivens''
*''
Bathelium duplex''
*''
Bathelium flavostiolatum''
– Bolivia
*''
Bathelium inspersomastoideum''
– Bolivia
*''
Bathelium lineare''
*''
Bathelium madreporiforme''
*''
Bathelium mastoideum''
*''
Bathelium megaleium''
*''
Bathelium meristosporum''
*''
Bathelium mirabile''
– Bolivia
*''
Bathelium nigroporum''
*''
Bathelium oligosporum''
*''
Bathelium ostendatum''
*''
Bathelium phaeomelodes''
*''
Bathelium porinosporum''
*''
Bathelium pruinolucens''
*''
Bathelium pruinosum''
– Bolivia
*''
Bathelium sphaericum''
*''
Bathelium subalbens''
*''
Bathelium sundaicum''
*''
Bathelium tuberculosum''
*''
Bathelium varium''
*''
Bathelium velatum''
References
Trypetheliaceae
Lichen genera
Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa described in 1803
Taxa named by Erik Acharius
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