Didymocyrtis (fungus)

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Didymocyrtis is also a zoological genus of spumellarian Radiolaria.

Didymocyrtis
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Phaeosphaeriaceae
Genus: Didymocyrtis
Vain. (1921)
Type species
Didymocyrtis consimilis
Vain. (1921)
Species

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Didymocyrtis is a genus of lichenicolous fungi in the family Phaeosphaeriaceae. [1] The genus was circumscribed by Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio in 1921, with Didymocyrtis consimilis assigned as the type species.

Species

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References

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