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Pycnothelia
Pycnothelia papillaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Cladoniaceae
Genus:	Pycnothelia (Ach.) Dufour (1821)
Type species
Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1985)
Species
P. caliginosa P. mascarena P. papillaria
Synonyms
Cenomyce sect. Pycnothelia Ach. (1799) Cladonia subgen. Pycnothelia (Ach.) Vain. (1926) Papillaria J.Kickx f. (1835) Pycnotheliomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Pycnothelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae. Pycnothelia was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821; it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a section of the now-defunct genus Cenomyce.

Species

• Pycnothelia caliginosa D.J.Galloway & P.James (1987)
• Pycnothelia mascarena (Nyl.) Nyl. ex Leight. (1866)
• Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1895)

References

1. "Synonymy: Pycnothelia (Ach.) Dufour". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
2. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, LKT; Dolatabadi, S; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
3. Dufour, J.L.M. (1821). "Révision des genres Cladonia, Scyphophorus, Helopodium et Baeomyces de la flore française". Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques (in French). 8: 41–73.

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