Porpidia Explained
Porpidia is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Lecideaceae.
Taxonomy
Porpidia was circumscribed by the German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855, with Porpidia trullisata designated as the type species.
Species
, Species Fungorum accepts 38 species of Porpidia:
- Porpidia albocaerulescens
- Porpidia cinereoatra
- Porpidia contraponenda
- Porpidia crustulata
- Porpidia degelii
- Porpidia flavicunda
- Porpidia flavocruenta - Austria, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Iceland, and North America (Alaska)
- Porpidia grisea
- Porpidia hydrophila
- Porpidia hypostictica – China
- Porpidia irrigua
- Porpidia islandica - Scotland and Iceland
- Porpidia littoralis – Australia
- Porpidia lowiana
- Porpidia macrocarpa
- Porpidia melinodes
- Porpidia nadvornikiana
- Porpidia navarina – Chile
- Porpidia ochrolemma
- Porpidia pachythallina - British Isles
- Porpidia platycarpoides
- Porpidia rugosa
- Porpidia shangrila – China
- Porpidia soredizodes
- Porpidia speirea
- Porpidia squamosa – China
- Porpidia stephanodes
- Porpidia striata - British Isles
- Porpidia submelinodes – Antarctica
- Porpidia subsimplex
- Porpidia superba
- Porpidia thomsonii
- Porpidia trullisata
- Porpidia tuberculosa
- Porpidia ulleungdoensis – Ulleungdo, South Korea
- Porpidia umbonifera
- Porpidia vulcanoides
- Porpidia zeoroides
In addition, one additional species is accepted by Mycobank:
