Xyleborus (lichen)

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Xyleborus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Stereocaulaceae
Genus: Xyleborus
R.C. Harris & Ladd
Type species
Xyleborus sporodochifer
R.C. Harris & Ladd

Xyleborus is a genus of lichen in the Stereocaulaceae family of the Lecanorales order. The genus is monotypic and contains the single species Xyleborus sporodochifer, first reported in 2007, and found in the Ozarks in Missouri.[1]

References

  1. Harris RC, Ladd D. (2007). "New taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ozark ecoregion". Opuscula Philolichenum 4: 57–68. 
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