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Dictyosporium
Dictyosporium is the type genus of fungi belonging to the family Dictyosporiaceae. By an estimate in 2018 it is formed by 45 species.
The species in this genus are saprobic on dead or decaying wood and can be found on dead wood and plant litter in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. The genus can be found worldwide, it has a cosmopolitan distribution. The type species is Dictyosporium elegans, which was described by August Carl Joseph Corda in Witenweber (1836).
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Dictyosporium elegans
speciesDictyosporium elegans
Dictyosporium foliicola
speciesDictyosporium foliicola
Dictyosporium intermedium
speciesDictyosporium intermedium
Dictyosporium bulbosum
speciesDictyosporium bulbosum
Dictyosporium muriformis
speciesDictyosporium muriformis
Dictyosporium pelagicum
speciesDictyosporium pelagicum
Dictyosporium hughesii
speciesDictyosporium hughesii
Dictyosporium rhopalostylidis
speciesDictyosporium rhopalostylidis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 353172.