Periconia

Genus of fungi

Periconia
"Periconia glaucocephala"
Periconia glaucocephala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Phylum:
Ascomycota
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Order:
Pleosporales
Family:
Incertae sedis
Genus:
Periconia

Tode Ex Fries, 1791[1]
Species

many, including

  • Periconia circinata
  • Periconia elegans
Synonyms
  • Berkeleyna O. Kuntze, 1898
  • Harpocephalum Atkinson, 1897
  • Pachytrichum Sydow, 1925
  • Sporocybe Fries, 1825
  • Sporodum Corda, 1837
  • Trichocephalum Costantin, 1888

Periconia is a genus of sac fungi in the order Pleosporales. Fossils of Periconia have been reported from 12 million year old rocks from central England.[2]

References

  1. ^ Tode, Fungi Mecklenburgenses Selecti 2: 2 (1791)
  2. ^ Pound, Matthew J.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Romero, Ingrid C.; Lim, Michael; Riding, James B.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K. (2022). "The fungal ecology of the Brassington Formation (Middle Miocene) of Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and a new method for palaeoclimate reconstruction". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.947623. ISSN 2296-701X.

External links

  • Data related to Periconia at Wikispecies
  • Media related to Periconia at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Periconia
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