Platygramme Explained
Platygramme is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Graphidaceae consisting of about 30 species. The genus was circumscribed by Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée in 1874.
Several features characterise the genus Platygramme: the brown ascospores, an hymenium, and fruiting bodies in which some of the tips of the are and form lamellae (plates).
Species
, Species Fungorum (as listed in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 27 species of Platygramme.
- Platygramme arechavaletae
- Platygramme australiensis
- Platygramme coccinea
- Platygramme colubrosa
- Platygramme commutabilis
- Platygramme computata
- Platygramme discurrens
- Platygramme elaeoplaca
- Platygramme elegantula
- Platygramme fuscescens – Australia
- Platygramme hainanensis – China
- Platygramme impudica
- Platygramme kaalensis
- Platygramme lueckingii – China
- Platygramme microspora
- Platygramme muelleri
- Platygramme pachyspora
- Platygramme pachnodes
- Platygramme platyloma
- Platygramme praestans
- Platygramme pseudomontagnei
- Platygramme pudica
- Platygramme subarechavaletae – Thailand
- Platygramme subcolubrosa – Thailand
- Platygramme taiwanensis
- Platygramme tumulata
- Platygramme unirana – Brazil
- Platygramme wattiana
