Sphaerophorus
Encyclopedia
Sphaerophorus a genus
of lichenized
fungi in the order
Lecanorales
. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the widespread genus contains eight species.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of lichenized
Lichen
Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...
fungi in the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Lecanorales
Lecanorales
The Lecanorales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The order contains 26 families, 269 genera, and 5695...
. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the widespread genus contains eight species.