Ascodichaena rugosa is a species of fungus in the family Ascodichaenaceae. It was first scientifically described as a new species by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 as Lichen rugosum.[1] Heinz Butin transferred it to the newly circumscribed genus Ascodichaena in 1977, in which it is the type species.[2]

Ascodichaena rugosa
Ascodichaena rugosa on European beech in Poland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Rhytismatales
Family: Ascodichaenaceae
Genus: Ascodichaena
Species:
A. rugosa
Binomial name
Ascodichaena rugosa
Butin (1977)
Synonyms
  • Lichen rugosum L. (1753)

References

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  1. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1140.
  2. ^ Butin, H. (1977). "Taxonomy and morphology of Ascodichaena rugosa gen. et sp. nov". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 69 (2): 249–254. doi:10.1016/S0007-1536(77)80045-4.