Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lichinomycetes
Ordo: Lichinales
Familia: Lichinaceae
Genus: Pyrenopsis
Species: P. compacta - P. furfurea - P. fuscatula - P. fuscoatra - P. grumulifera - P. haemaleella - P. impolita - P. lecideella - P. macrocarpa - P. myriospora - P. phaeococca - P. phylliscella - P. polycocca - P. pulvinata - P. rhodosticta - P. sanguinea - P. subareolata - P. subfuliginea - P. tasmanica - P. triptococca - P. viridirufa
Name
Pyrenopsis (Nyl.) Nyl., 1858
Type species: Pyrenopsis fuscatula Nyl.
References
* Nyl., Syn. Meth. Lich. 1: 97 (1858)
* Nylander, W. (1858) Synopsis methodica Lichenum omnium hucusque cognitorum praemissa introductione lingua gallica tractata. - L. Martinet\Paris. 1-140 pp.
* Coppins, B.J., Gilbert, O.L. and Jørgensen, P.M. (1992) Pyrenopsis (Nyl.) Nyl. (1858) (pp. 519-520) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp.
* Dahl, E. (1950) Studies in the macrolichen flora of southwest Greenland. Meddel. om Gronland 150(2): 1-176.
* Henssen, A. (1979[1980]) Problematik der Gattungsbegrenzung bei den Lichinaceen. Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 92: 483-506.
* Henssen, A., Büdel, B. and Titze, A. (1987) Euopsis and Harpidium, genera of the Lichinaceae (Lichenes) with rostrate asci. Botanica Acta 101: 49-55.
* Jørgensen, P.M. and Henssen, A. (1990) Proposal to conserve Pyrenopsis (Nyl.) Nyl. and nomenclatural comments on some related genera (lichenized fungi). Taxon 39: 343-348)
* Moreno, P.P. and Egea, J.M. (1994) El género Psorotichia y especies próximas en el sureste de España y norte de Africa. Bull. Soc. Linn. Provence 45: 291-308.
* Schultz, M. (2007) Pyrenopsis (pp. 286-287) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages.
* Schultz, M. and Büdel, B. (2002) Key to the genera of the Lichinaceae. Lichenologist 34: 39-62. [1]
* USDA Plants Database
* Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index
Vernacular names
English: Pyrenopsis lichens; Red water-crust
