Coniocybaceae

Coniocybaceae
Chaenotheca brunneola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Coniocybomycetes
M.Prieto & Wedin (2013)
Order: Coniocybales
M.Prieto & Wedin (2013)
Family: Coniocybaceae
Rchb. (1837)
Type genus
Coniocybe
Ach. (1816)
Genera

Chaenotheca
Chaenotricha
Coniocybe
Sclerophora

The Coniocybaceae are the sole family of lichen-forming fungi in the Coniocybales, which itself is the only order in the class Coniocybomycetes.[1] The family was circumscribed by Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach in 1837.[2] Both the order and the class were proposed by Maria Prieto and Mats Wedin in 2013 after molecular phylogenetics analysis of various calicioid lichens showed that the Coniocybaceae represented an early diverging lineage in the inoperculate ascomycetes.[3]

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