Chiodecton Explained
Chiodecton is a genus of lichens in the family Roccellaceae. The genus was circumscribed by the lichenologist Erik Acharius in 1814, with Chiodecton sphaerale assigned as the type species.
Species
, Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 24 species in Chiodecton.
- Chiodecton acarosporoides
- Chiodecton andamanicum – India
- Chiodecton applanatum – Malaysia
- Chiodecton colensoi
- Chiodecton complexum – Brazil
- Chiodecton congestulum
- Chiodecton effusum
- Chiodecton flavovirens
- Chiodecton graphidastroides
- Chiodecton heterogenum
- Chiodecton leprarioides – Réunion
- Chiodecton leptosporum
- Chiodecton lichexanthonicum – Brazil
- Chiodecton macquariense
- Chiodecton maculatum
- Chiodecton montanum
- Chiodecton norsticticum – India
- Chiodecton pustuliferum
- Chiodecton queenslandiae
- Chiodecton sorediatum – Uganda
- Chiodecton sphaerale
- Chiodecton stictathecium
- Chiodecton sublaevigatum
- Chiodecton xanthonosorediatum
