Gyalectidium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Graphidales |
Family: | Gomphillaceae |
Genus: | Gyalectidium Müll.Arg. (1881) |
Type species | |
Gyalectidium filicinum Müll.Arg. (1881)
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Species | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
Gyalectidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Gomphillaceae. A 2020 estimates placed 52 species in the genus.[2] The genus was circumscribed by Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1881. He included 3 species: G. xantholeucum, G. dispersum, and G. filicinum;[3] the last of these is now the type species of the genus.