Pyxine Explained
Pyxine is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Caliciaceae. The genus has a widespread distribution in tropical regions.
The presence or absence of the compound lichexanthone is a character used in classifying Pyxine species; about 20 species contain this compound. This represents the largest group of foliose lichens with the compound.
Species
- Pyxine albovirens
- Pyxine astipitata – Brazil
- Pyxine astridiana – neotropical
- Pyxine australiensis – Asia; Australia
- Pyxine berteriana – pantropical
- Pyxine boonpragobiana – Thailand
- Pyxine coccifera
- Pyxine cocoes
- Pyxine cognata - pantropical
- Pyxine consocians
- Pyxine convexior
- Pyxine copelandii
- Pyxine cylindrica – Papua New Guinea
- Pyxine dactyloschmidtii
- Pyxine daedalea – Costa Rica
- Pyxine desudans – Australia
- Pyxine elixii – Australia
- Pyxine endochrysina
- Pyxine endocrocea
- Pyxine eschweileri
- Pyxine exoalbida – Brazil
- Pyxine fallax
- Pyxine farinosa – Papua New Guinea
- Pyxine flavicans
- Pyxine glaucovirescens
- Pyxine hengduanensis
- Pyxine jolyana – Brazil
- Pyxine katendei – Africa
- Pyxine keralensis – India
- Pyxine lilacina – Africa
- Pyxine lyei – Africa
- Pyxine mantiqueirensis – Brazil
- Pyxine mexicana
- Pyxine minuta
- Pyxine nana – neotropical
- Pyxine nubila
- Pyxine petricola – pantropical
- Pyxine plumea – Australia
- Pyxine profallax
- Pyxine pseudokeralensis
- Pyxine papuana – Papua New Guinea
- Pyxine punensis – India
- Pyxine pungens
- Pyxine pustulata – Brazil
- Pyxine pyxinoides – neotropical
- Pyxine retirugella
- Pyxine rugulosa
- Pyxine schmidtii
- Pyxine simulans - pantropical
- Pyxine sorediata
- Pyxine subcinerea – pantropical
- Pyxine subcoralligera
- Pyxine yercaudensis – India
- Pyxine yunnanensis – China
