''Endococcus'' is a
genus of
lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family
Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species.
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 ...
by the Finnish botanist
William Nylander in 1855.
Although at least one source places the genus in the
Verrucariaceae
The Verrucariaceae are a family of mostly lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichen-forming species, which comprise the vast majority of the family, have a wide variety of thallus forms, and include crustose (crust-like), foliose ( ...
, a 2016 study of the
type species, ''
Endococcus rugulosus'', determined that it should instead be placed in the family Lichenotheliaceae of the order
Dothideales;
this classification echoes a placement proposed in 1979 by
David Hawksworth.
Species
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Endococcus alectoriae''
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Endococcus apicicola''
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Endococcus brachysporus''
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Endococcus caudisporus''
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Endococcus cladiae
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in the V ...
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Endococcus exerrans
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus freyi''
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Endococcus fusiger
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in the ...
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Endococcus hafellneri''
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Endococcus hafellnerianus''
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Endococcus incrassatus''
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Endococcus janae''
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Endococcus karlstadtensis
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus macrosporus
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus matzeri
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus nanellus
''Endococcus nanellus'' is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the order Dothideales. It is known from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Hawaii, Japan, Russia, South-Korea, and Kazakhstan.
Host species
''Endococcus nanellus'' is known to infect numero ...
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Endococcus oreinae
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus oropogonicola
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus pallidosporus
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in th ...
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Endococcus parentium''
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Endococcus parmeliarum
''Endococcus'' is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species. The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855. Although at least one source places the genus in the ...
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Endococcus peltigericola''
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Endococcus perminutus''
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Endococcus physciae''
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Endococcus propinquus''
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Endococcus protoblasteniae''
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Endococcus pseudocyphellariae''
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Endococcus ramalinarius''
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Endococcus rugulosus''
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Endococcus sardous''
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Endococcus sendtneri''
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Endococcus sipmanii''
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Endococcus thamnoliae''
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Endococcus thelommatis
''Endococcus thelommatis'' is a species of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungus in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It was formally described as a new species in 2011 by lichenologists Jana Kocourková and Kerry Knudsen. The fungus grows on the ...
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Endococcus tricolorans''
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Endococcus umbilicariae''
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Endococcus variabilis''
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Endococcus verrucisporus''
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Endococcus verrucosus''
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Endococcus xanthoparmeliae''
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Endococcus zahlbrucknerellae''
References
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes genera
Taxa named by William Nylander (botanist)
Taxa described in 1855
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