Dimelaena

Dimelaena is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae.^[1]: 260 Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens,^[2] or moonglow lichens.^[1]: 260 They are placodioid crustose lichens, ranging in form from rimose to areolate.^[1] The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.^[3]

Dimelaena
Dimelaena oreina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Caliciales
Family:	Caliciaceae
Genus:	Dimelaena Norman (1852)
Type species
Dimelaena oreina (Ach.) Norman (1853)
Synonyms
Dimelaena sect. Dimelaena Norman (1852) Beltraminia Trevis. (1857)

Species

• Dimelaena australiensis H.Mayrhofer & Sheard (1984)
• Dimelaena elevata Elix, Kalb & Wippel (1996)
• Dimelaena ewersii Elix (2017)
• Dimelaena lichenicola K.Knudsen, Sheard, Kocourk. & H.Mayrhofer (2013)
• Dimelaena mayrhoferiana Aptroot & M.Cáceres (2018)
• Dimelaena oreina (Ach.) Norman (1852)
• Dimelaena radiata (Tuck.) Müll.Arg. (1884
• Dimelaena subsquamulosa Giralt, H.Mayrhofer, van den Boom & Elix (2014)
• Dimelaena tenuis (Müll.Arg.) H.Mayrhofer & Wippel (1996)
• Dimelaena triseptata Aptroot (2008)