:Didymocyrtis ''is also a zoological genus of
spumellaria
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Radiolaria
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''Didymocyrtis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
lichenicolous fungi
A lichenicolous fungus is a parasitic fungus that only lives on lichen as the host. A lichenicolous fungus is not the same as the fungus that is the component of the lichen, which is known as a lichenized fungus. They are most commonly specific to ...
in the family
Phaeosphaeriaceae
The Phaeosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are generally nectrotrophic or saprobic on a wide range of plants.
Genera list
*'' Barria''
*'' Bricookea''
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The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by Finnish lichenologist
Edvard August Vainio
Edvard August Vainio (born Edvard Lang; 5 August 185314 May 1929) was a Finnish lichenology, lichenologist. His early works on the lichens of Lapland (Finland), Lapland, his three-volume monograph on the lichen genus ''Cladonia'', and, in parti ...
in 1921, with ''
Didymocyrtis consimilis'' 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 specimen ...
.
Species
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Didymocyrtis assimilis''
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Didymocyrtis azorica''
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Didymocyrtis banksiae''
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Didymocyrtis brachylaenae''
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Didymocyrtis bryonthae''
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Didymocyrtis canariensis''
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Didymocyrtis cladoniicola''
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Didymocyrtis consimilis''
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Didymocyrtis epiphyscia''
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Didymocyrtis foliaceiphila''
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Didymocyrtis graphidacearum''
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Didymocyrtis grumantiana''
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Didymocyrtis infestans''
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Didymocyrtis kaernefeltii''
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Didymocyrtis melanelixiae''
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Didymocyrtis micropunctum''
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Didymocyrtis microxanthoriae''
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Didymocyrtis peltigerae''
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Didymocyrtis physciae''
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Didymocyrtis pini''
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Didymocyrtis pseudeverniae''
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Didymocyrtis ramalinae''
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Didymocyrtis rhizoplacae''
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Didymocyrtis septata''
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Didymocyrtis slaptonensis''
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Didymocyrtis thamnoliicola''
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Didymocyrtis trassii''
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Didymocyrtis xanthomendozae''
References
Pleosporales
Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa named by Edvard August Vainio
Taxa described in 1921
Lichenicolous fungi
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