Cyphelium

Cyphelium is a genus of crustose areolate lichens with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores.^[1]: 258 The genus is in the family Caliciaceae . The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species.^[2] Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.^[1]: 258

Cyphelium
Cyphelium inquinans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Caliciales
Family:	Caliciaceae
Genus:	Cyphelium Ach. (1815)
Type species
Cyphelium tigillare (Ach.) Ach. (1815)

Species

• Cyphelium brachysporum
• Cyphelium brunneum
• Cyphelium chloroconium
• Cyphelium inquinans
• Cyphelium karelicum
• Cyphelium lecideinum
• Cyphelium lucidum
• Cyphelium marcianum
• Cyphelium notarisii
• Cyphelium pinicola
• Cyphelium sessile
• Cyphelium tigillare
• Cyphelium trachylioides