Lepidostroma

Lepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae (the only family within the fungal order Lepidostromatales).^[1] The genus is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi (Multiclavula (Cantharellales), Ertzia (Lepidostromatales), and Sulzbacheromyces (Lepidostromatales)) by having a distinctly squamulose thallus (similar to a 'Coriscium-type' thallus) with scattered to dense rounded to reniform squamules.^[2] Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.

Lepidostroma
Lepidostroma vilgalysii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Lepidostromatales
Family:	Lepidostromataceae
Genus:	Lepidostroma Magd. & S.Winkl. (1967)
Species
L. calocerum L. rugaramae L. vilgalysii L. winklerianum

Species

• Lepidostroma calocerum (G.W.Martin) Oberw. (1984)
• Lepidostroma rugaramae (Eb.Fisch., Ertz, Killmann & Sérus.) Ertz, Eb.Fisch., Killmann, Sérus. & Lawrey (2008)
• Lepidostroma vilgalysii B.P.Hodk. (2012)^[3]
• Lepidostroma winklerianum B.P.Hodk. & Lücking (2013)

The taxon Lepidostroma asianum Yanaga & N.Maek. (2014), described from Japan, is considered synonymous with the Asian species Sulzbacheromyces sinensis.^[4] Other species once classified in this genus have since been transferred to other genera, including:

• Lepidostroma akagerae (Eb.Fisch., Ertz, Killmann & Sérus.) Ertz, Eb.Fisch., Killmann, Sérus. & Lawrey (2008) is now Ertzia akagerae^[5]
• Lepidostroma caatingae Sulzbacher & Lücking (2012) is now Sulzbacheromyces caatingae.^[6]