Cyphelium is a genus of crustose areolate lichens with cup-like apothecia filled with sooty black spores.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The genus is in the family Caliciaceae . The genus has a widespread distribution, especially in north and south temperate regions, and contains about 12 species. Members of the genus are commonly called soot lichens.
Species Cyphelium brachysporum Cyphelium brunneum Cyphelium chloroconium Cyphelium inquinans Cyphelium karelicum Cyphelium lecideinum Cyphelium lucidum Cyphelium marcianum Cyphelium notarisii Cyphelium pinicola Cyphelium sessile Cyphelium tigillare Cyphelium trachylioides
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