Leptochidium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Peltigerales
- Family
- Massalongiaceae
- Genus
- Leptochidium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Leptochidium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Leptochidium
Leptochidium is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Massalongiaceae. It has two species:
- Leptochidium albociliatum (Desm.) M.Choisy (1952)
- Leptochidium crenatulum (Nyl.) P.M.Jørg. (2006)
The genus was circumscribed by French lichenologist Maurice Choisy in 1952. Leptochidium remained monotypic until 2006, when Per Magnus Jørgensen transferred into it a species originally named Leptogium rivulare var. crenatulum by William Nylander.
...Leptochidium in languages:
- Finnish
- sopulinjäkälät
- Swedish
- glashårslavar
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