Thelocarpaceae

Thelocarpaceae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Order: Thelocarpales
Lücking & Lumbsch (2016)
Family: Thelocarpaceae
Zukal (1893)
Type genus
Thelocarpon
Nyl. (1853)
Genera

Sarcosagium
Thelocarpon

Thelocarpaceae is the sole family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Thelocarpales. The family contains two genera, Sarcosagium and Thelocarpon.[1] The family was circumscribed by lichenologist Hugo Zukal in 1893,[2] while the order was proposed by Robert Lücking and H. Thorsten Lumbsch in 2016.[3]

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