Leptochidium

Leptochidium
Leptochidium albociliatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Peltigerales
Family: Massalongiaceae
Genus: Leptochidium
M.Choisy (1952)
Type species
Leptochidium albociliatum
(Desm.) M.Choisy (1952)
Species

L. albociliatum
L. crenatulum

Leptochidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Massalongiaceae.[1] It has two species:

The genus was circumscribed by French lichenologist Maurice Choisy in 1952.[2] Leptochidium remained monotypic until 2006, when Per Magnus Jørgensen transferred into it a species originally named Leptogium rivulare var. crenatulum by William Nylander.[3]

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