| Dimelaena | |
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| Dimelaena oreina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Caliciales |
| Family: | Caliciaceae |
| Genus: | Dimelaena Norman (1852) |
| Type species | |
| Dimelaena oreina (Ach.) Norman (1853) | |
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Dimelaena is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Caliciaceae. Members of the genus are commonly called mountain lichens, or moonglow lichens. They are placodioid crustose lichens, ranging in form from rimose to areolate. The genus has a widespread distribution and contains eight species.
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)
References
- ^ Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
- Name Search Results for Scientific Name Dimelaena, USDA
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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