Cercidospora epipolytropa

Cercidospora epipolytropa is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the genus Cercidospora but it has not been assigned to a family.^[2] It is known to parasitise the crustose lichen Lecanora polytropa.^[3] The fungus was first formally described by mycologist William Mudd in 1861. Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold transferred it to Cercidospora in 1874.^[4]

Cercidospora epipolytropa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Dothideales
Genus:	Cercidospora
Species:	C. epipolytropa
Binomial name
Cercidospora epipolytropa (Mudd) Arnold (1874)
Synonyms[1]
List Arthopyrenia epipolytropa (Mudd) H.Olivier (1906) Cercidospora epipolytropa Mudd (1861) Didymella epipolytropa (Mudd) Berl. & Voglino (1886) Didymella epipolytropa var. apiosporoides Vouaux (1909) Didymosphaeria epipolytropa (Mudd) G.Winter (1885) Pharcidia epipolytropa (Mudd) Arnold (1870) Pharcidia epipolytropon (Mudd) Jacz. (1896) Thelidium epipolytropum Mudd (1861) Verrucaria epipolytropa (Mudd) Cromb. (1870)