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Megalosporaceae
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Megalosporaceae

The Megalosporaceae are a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The family comprises three genera and roughly forty described species, distributed mainly in humid temperate to tropical forests of the Southern Hemisphere.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Megalospora

genusMegalospora

Megaloblastenia

genusMegaloblastenia

Austroblastenia

genusAustroblastenia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 175687.