Pycnothelia

Pycnothelia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Cladoniaceae.^[2] Pycnothelia was promoted to generic status by French naturalist Léon Jean Marie Dufour in 1821;^[3] it was originally circumscribed by Erik Acharius in 1799 as a section of the now-defunct genus Cenomyce.

Pycnothelia
Pycnothelia papillaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Cladoniaceae
Genus:	Pycnothelia (Ach.) Dufour (1821)
Type species
Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1985)
Species
P. caliginosa P. mascarena P. papillaria
Synonyms[1]
Cenomyce sect. Pycnothelia Ach. (1799) Cladonia subgen. Pycnothelia (Ach.) Vain. (1926) Papillaria J.Kickx f. (1835) Pycnotheliomyces Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Species

• Pycnothelia caliginosa D.J.Galloway & P.James (1987)
• Pycnothelia mascarena (Nyl.) Nyl. ex Leight. (1866)
• Pycnothelia papillaria (Ehrh.) L.M.Dufour (1895)