Calotrichopsis

Calotrichopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lichinomycetes
Order:	Lichinales
Family:	Porocyphaceae
Genus:	Calotrichopsis ; Vain. (1890)
Type species
	Calotrichopsis insignis; Vain. (1890)
Species
	C. filiformis ; C. granulosa ; C. insignis ; C. rivae

Last updated September 30, 2025

Calotrichopsis is a small genus of cyanolichens placed in the family Porocyphaceae. The genus was originally circumscribed by the Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1896.^[1] A 2024 multilocus study of the class Lichinomycetes emended Porocyphaceae and provisionally included Calotrichopsis in that family; earlier references had kept the genus in Lichinaceae. Species are minute, dark-coloured lichens partnered with cyanobacteria and are typically found on rock or soil in open, intermittently wet microhabitats. The family placement is considered tentative pending additional molecular sampling.^[2]

Species

Calotrichopsis filiformis Henssen (1963)^[3]
Calotrichopsis granulosa Henssen (1963)^[3]
Calotrichopsis insignis Vain. (1890)^[1]
Calotrichopsis rivae Sambo (1937)^[4]

References

1 2 Vainio, E.A. (1890). "Étude sur la classification naturelle et la morphologie des Lichens du Brésil. Pars prima" [Study on the natural classification and morphology of the lichens of Brazil. Part one]. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 7 (1): 1–247 [243].
↑ Prieto, M.; Wedin, M.; Schultz, M. (2024). "Phylogeny, evolution and a re-classification of the Lichinomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 109: 595–655. doi:10.3114/sim.2024.109.09. PMC 11663425 . PMID 39717657.
1 2 Henssen, A. (1963). "Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae" [A revision of the lichen families Lichinaceae and Ephebaceae]. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses (in German). 18 (1): 1–123.
↑ Cengia Sambo, M. (1937). "Lichenes Africae orientalis italicae. I. I. I licheni dell'Abissinia meridionale e della Somalia" [Lichens of Italian East Africa. I. The lichens of southern Abyssinia and Somalia]. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 44: 456–470 [464].

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[Vainio_1890-1] 1 2 Vainio, E.A. (1890). "Étude sur la classification naturelle et la morphologie des Lichens du Brésil. Pars prima" [Study on the natural classification and morphology of the lichens of Brazil. Part one]. Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 7 (1): 1–247 [243].

[Prieto_et_al._2024-2] Prieto, M.; Wedin, M.; Schultz, M. (2024). "Phylogeny, evolution and a re-classification of the Lichinomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 109: 595–655. doi:10.3114/sim.2024.109.09. PMC 11663425 . PMID 39717657.

[Henssen_1963-3] 1 2 Henssen, A. (1963). "Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae" [A revision of the lichen families Lichinaceae and Ephebaceae]. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses (in German). 18 (1): 1–123.

[Cengia_Sambo_1937-4] Cengia Sambo, M. (1937). "Lichenes Africae orientalis italicae. I. I. I licheni dell'Abissinia meridionale e della Somalia" [Lichens of Italian East Africa. I. The lichens of southern Abyssinia and Somalia]. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 44: 456–470 [464].

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