Lichenopyrenis Calat., M.J. Sanz & Aptroot, Mycol. Res. 105(5): 634 (2001).

MycoBank number: MB 28494; Index Fungorum number: IF 28494; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06433; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species – Lichenopyrenis galligena Calat., M.J. Sanz & Aptroot, Mycol. Res. 105(5): 634 (2001).

Notes – Lichenopyrenis is well characterized and placed in Pleomassariaceae attributing to its perithecioid ascomata with a cellular (textura angularis) wall, cellular pseudoparaphyses, fissitunicate asci and distoseptate ascospores (Calatayud et al. 2001). The species of this genus considered to be a parasitic lichenicolous, terrestrial (see morphology Calatayud et al. 2001, Wijayawardene et al. 2017b, outline).

Species

  • Lichenopyrenis galligena