''Phoebus'' is a fungal

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of previously uncertain

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placement in the order Arthoniales, now placed in the

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Lecanographaceae ''Lecanographaceae'' is a family of mostly lichens (also some lichenicolous fungi) in the order Arthoniales. The family was circumscribed in 2014, prompted by a molecular phylogenetic-based restructuring of the Arthoniales. Description Lecanogra ...

thanks to molecular analyses. It contains only one species, ''Phoebus hydrophobius'', found in the Ozarks of the central United States, and described as new to science in 2007. The genus name of ''Phoebus'' is named after the mythical Greco-Roman god Phoebus (also known as Apollo) of the sun as the fungus was thought to look like the orange 'sun bursts' on rocks. The genus was

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by Richard C. Harris and Douglas Ladd in Opuscula Philolichenum vol.4 on page 64 in 2007.

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Arthoniomycetes Fungi of North America Fungi described in 2007 {{Arthoniomycetes-stub