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Sclerophyton

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Sclerophyton is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae. It has about 15 species.^[1] The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Franz Gerhard Eschweiler in 1824, with Sclerophyton elegans assigned as the type species.^[2]

^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
^ Eschweiler, F.G. (1824). Systema Lichenum, Genera Exhibens rite distincta, Pluribus Novis Adaucta (in Latin). pp. 1–26.
^ ^a ^b ^c Archer, A.W. (2003). "New species in the genus Sclerophyton (Ascomycota, Opeographaceae) from Australia and the Solomon Islands". Mycotaxon. 87: 85–89.
^ Makhija, Urmila; Adawadkar, Bharati (2002). "The lichen genus Sclerophyton in India". The Lichenologist. 34 (4): 347–350. doi:10.1006/lich.2002.0405.

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Sclerophyton is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Opegraphaceae. It has about 15 species. The genus was circumscribed by German lichenologist Franz Gerhard Eschweiler in 1824, with Sclerophyton elegans assigned as the type species.