The Coniocybaceae are the sole

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in the Coniocybales, which itself is the only order in the class Coniocybomycetes. The family was

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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for sci ...

in 1837. Both the order and the class were proposed by Maria Prieto and Mats Wedin in 2013 after

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analysis of various calicioid lichens showed that the Coniocybaceae represented an early diverging

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in the inoperculate

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Genera

*'' Chaenotheca'' – 28 spp. *'' Coniocybe'' – 4 spp. *'' Sclerophora'' – 4 spp.

References

Ascomycota Ascomycota families Lichen families Taxa named by Ludwig Reichenbach Taxa described in 1837 {{Ascomycota-stub