''Phlyctis'' is a
genus
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of
lichenized fungi in the order
Gyalectales
''Gyalectales'' is an order of lichen-forming fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains 5 families, 15 genera and about 550 species.
Taxonomy
The Gyalectales were introduced in a 1974 publication by Aino Henssen and Martin Jahns, but ...
, and the
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
of the family
Phlyctidaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called blemished lichens.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by German lichenologist
Julius von Flotow in 1850.
[ The ''Dictionary of the Fungi'' (2008) estimated the widespread genus to contain 12 species,][ but several species have been described and added to the genus since then.
]
Species
*'' Phlyctis agelaea''
*'' Phlyctis argena''
*'' Phlyctis boliviensis''
References
Gyalectales
Lichen genera
Gyalectales genera
Taxa described in 1831
Taxa named by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth
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