Button Lichens, Rosette Lichens, And Allies

Caliciales is an order of mostly lichenized fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes. It consists of two families: Caliciaceae and Physciaceae, which together contain 54 genera and more than 1200 species.^[1] The order was circumscribed by American botanist Charles Edwin Bessey in 1907.^[2]

Families and genera

As of October 2022, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 2 families, 56 genera, and 910 species in the Caliciales.^[3]

• Caliciaceae Chevall. (1826)

Acolium – 5 spp.

Acroscyphus – 1 sp.

Allocalicium – 1 sp.

Amandinea – 83 spp.

Australiaena – 1 sp.

Baculifera – 18 spp.

Buellia – 201 spp.

Caliciella – 1 sp.

Calicium – 36 spp.

Chrismofulvea – 3 spp.

Ciposia – 1 sp.

Cratiria – 23 spp.

Dermatiscum – 2 sp.

Dermiscellum – 1 sp.

Dimelaena – 10 spp.

Diploicia – 6 spp.

Diplotomma – 12 spp.

Dirinaria – 18 spp.

Endohyalina – 10 sp.

Fluctua – 1 sp.

Gassicurtia – 30 spp.

Hafellia – 13 spp.

Hypoflavia – 3 spp.

Monerolechia – 5 spp.

Orcularia – 3 spp.

Pseudothelomma – 2 spp.

Pyxine – 44 spp.

Redonia – 1 sp.

Santessonia – 3 sp.

Sculptolumina – 5 spp.

Sphinctrinopsis – 1 sp.

Stigmatochroma – 8 spp.

Tetramelas – 31 spp.

Texosporium – 1 sp.

Thelomma – 2 spp.

Tholurna – 1 sp.

Tylophoropsis – 1 sp.

• Physciaceae Zahlbr. (1898)

Anaptychia – 5 spp.

Awasthia – 1 sp.

Coscinocladium – 2 spp.

Culbersonia – 1 sp.

Heterodermia – 49 spp.

Hyperphyscia – 7 spp.

Kashiwadia – 1 sp.

Leucodermia – 11 spp.

Mischoblastia – 3 spp.

Mobergia – 1 sp.

Oxnerella – 1 sp.

Phaeophyscia – 22 spp.

Phaeorrhiza – 1 sp.

Physcia – 43 spp.

Physciella – 4 spp.

Physconia – 15 spp.

Polyblastidium – 18 spp.

Rinodina – 132 spp.

Rinodinella – 3 spp.

Tornabea – 1 sp.

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