Endococcus

Endococcus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Lichenotheliales
Family: Lichenotheliaceae
Genus: Endococcus
Nyl. (1855)
Type species
Endococcus rugulosus
(Borrer ex Leight.) Nyl. (1855)
Species

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Endococcus is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) in the family Lichenotheliaceae. It has 44 species.[1] The genus was circumscribed by the Finnish botanist William Nylander in 1855.[2] Although at least one source places the genus in the Verrucariaceae, a 2016 study of the type species, Endococcus rugulosus, determined that it should instead be placed in the family Lichenotheliaceae of the order Dothideales;[3] this classification echoes a placement proposed in 1979 by David Hawksworth.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wijayawardene et al. 2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Nylander W. (1855). "Essai d'une nouvelle classification des lichens (second mémoire)". Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg (in French). 3: 161–202.
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