Mycocalicium Vain., Acta Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 7(no. 2): 182 (1890) Index Fungorum number: IF3311; Facesoffungi number: FoF 15500 Note - The genus was introduced by Vainio (1890) to accommodate species from Calicium which are not lichenized. Schmidt (1970) emended the generic concepts in the Mycocaliciaceae, thus characterized Mycocalicium as having non-septate spores, short asci, periclinal hyphae in the ascoma stalk, and [...]
Mycocalicium hyaloparvicellulum Daranag. & K.D. Hyde, in Ariyawansa et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-015-0346-5, [102] (2015) Index Fungorum number: IF551202; Facesoffungi number: FoF00707; Etymology – Refers to the hyaline small celled ascospores; hyalo = hyaline; parvus = small; cellula = cell. Holotype – MFLU 15-0667 Saprobic on cone of Pinus halepensis Miller. Sexual morph: Thallus crustaceous, solitary, erumpent, [...]
Pyrgidium montellicum (Beltr.) Tibell, Lichenologist 14(3): 239 (1982) (Fig. 4) MycoBank number: MB 110065; Index Fungorum number: IF 110065; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10277; Saprobic on bark. Thallus crustose, farinose, whitish. Prothallus absent. Photobiont absent. Sexual morph: Ascomata apothecial, 190–220 μm diam., 170–190(-210–290) μm high, not stalked, mazaedioid, disc black, sessile, scattered, almost spherical. Excipulum [...]
Pyrgidium leptoconium (Nyl.) Nádv., Stud. Bot. Čechoslov. 5: 125 (1942) (Fig. 3) MycoBank number: MB 369854; Index Fungorum number: IF 369854; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10276; Saprobic on bark. Thallus crustose, farinose. Prothallus absent. Photobiont absent. Sexual morph: Ascomata apothecial, 225–230 μm diam., 230–240 μm high, not stalked, mazaedioid, disc black, sessile, scattered, almost spherical. [...]
Pyrgidium bengaliense Nyl., Flora, Regensburg 50: 3 (1867) (Fig. 2) MycoBank number: MB 403559; Index Fungorum number: IF 403559; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10275; Saprobic on bark. Thallus inconspicuous, pruinose around the ascomata. Prothallus absent. Photobiont absent. Sexual morph: Ascomata apothecial, 185–200 μm diam., 175–215 μm high, not stalked, mazaedioid, disc black, sessile, scattered, almost [...]
Pyrgidium tibellii Thiyagaraja, Ertz, Lücking and K.D. Hyde, sp. nov. (Fig. 1) MycoBank number: MB; Index Fungorum number: IF; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10274; Etymology – The specific epithet “tibellii” given in the honor of Lief Tibell, who is a Swedish lichenologist, collector and specialist in Calicioid fungi. Saprobic on bark. Thallus crustose, farinose, whitish, [...]