Verrucariaceae
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The Verrucariaceae are a family of lichens and a few non-lichenised fungi in the order Verrucariales. The lichens have a wide variety of thallus forms, from crustose to foliose and squamulose. Most of
Verrucaria nigrescens 080408
Dermatocarpon americanum is a foliose member of the Verrucariaceae ...
... while Staurothele pulvinata is squamulose.
Catapyrenium boccanum, shown here growing in a hole in a calcareous rock, is a catapyrenioid lichen.
Dermatocarpon
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Dermatocarpon is a genus of lichens in the family Verrucariaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called stippleback lichens because they have fruiting structures called perithecia that are flask-sh
Verrucariaceae
…of these are now known to be not closely related and are classified in other families; the only currently applicable genera from Eschweiler's list are Dermatocarpon and Endocarpon in the Dermatocarpeae, and Verrucaria in the Verrucariae. Because Eschweiler published these taxa as "cohors", they do not meet the…
Dermatocarpon miniatum Jymm
Dermatocarpon luridum
Dermatocarpon americanum