Dendriscosticta | |
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Museum specimen of Dendriscosticta platyphylla (here labelled as a synonym, Sticta nylanderiana[1]) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Peltigeraceae |
Genus: | Dendriscosticta Moncada & Lücking (2013) |
Type species | |
Dendriscosticta wrightii |
Dendriscosticta is a genus of foliose lichens in the family Peltigeraceae.[2] The genus was circumscribed in 2013 by lichenologists Bibiana Moncada and Robert Lücking with Dendriscosticta wrightii assigned as the type species. The genus, a segregate of Sticta, was created to contain species in the Sticta wrightii clade. Dendriscosticta has a sister taxon relationship with the genera Yoshimuriella and Lobariella.[3] Dendriscosticta is distinguished from Sticta by the presence of algae in the excipulum.[4]