Caliciales | |
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The shrub stubble lichen (Allocalicium adaequatum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Subclass: | Lecanoromycetidae |
Order: | Caliciales Bessey (1907) |
Families | |
Caliciales is an order of mostly lichenized fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It consists of two families: Caliciaceae and Physciaceae, which together contain 54 genera and more than 1200 species.[1] The order was circumscribed by American botanist Charles Edwin Bessey in 1907.[2]