| Haploloma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Haploloma Trevis. (1857) |
| Species: | H. fraudulentum |
| Binomial name | |
| Haploloma fraudulentum Trevis. (1857) | |
Haploloma is a fungal genus of unknown familial and ordinal placement in the class Lecanoromycetes. [1] It contains the single species Haploloma fraudulentum, a lichen.
Both the genus and its sole species species were introduced to science by the Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1857. He described the genus as follows: "Apothecia scattered, distinct, circular, shaped like a small dish, sessile and attached, bordered by its own carbonaceous cup-shaped margin, parasitising other lichens. The disc is always open, situated on a simple, very black hypothecium . The asci are club-shaped, eight-spored, mixed with paraphyses. The spores are ovoid-ellipsoidal, single-celled, transparent, with a colourless episporiu m and a simple nucleus." [2]
As of 2017, there is no molecular sequence data available for this genus, and it remains poorly known. It is considered to be of uncertain ( incertae sedis ) placement in the order Lecanoromycetes. [3] [4]