Name:		Placopsis Linds., Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25 (1867) page 536
Status:		Genus, lichen-forming
Taxonomic position:		Trapeliaceae M. Choisy ex Hertel [Family] Agyriales Clem. & Shear [Order] Ostropomycetidae Reeb, Lutzoni & Cl. Roux [Subclass] Lecanoromycetes O.E. Erikss. & Winka [Class] Pezizomycotina O.E. Erikss. & Winka [Subdivision / Subphylum] Ascomycota Caval.-Sm. [Division / Phylum] Fungi R.T. Moore [Kingdom]
Constituent taxa:		Species Placopsis albida (Kremp.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis alpholacoides Placopsis alphoplacoides I.M. Lamb Placopsis amabilis de Lesd. Placopsis argillacea (C. Knight) Malcolm & Vezda Placopsis asahinae I.M. Lamb Placopsis auriculata Lumbsch & Kashiw. Placopsis baculigera I.M. Lamb Placopsis bicolor (Tuck.) de Lesd. Placopsis brachyloba (Müll. Arg.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis brevilobata (Zahlbr.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis chilena I.M. Lamb Placopsis clavifera (I.M. Lamb) D.J. Galloway Placopsis contortuplicata I.M. Lamb Placopsis cribellans (Nyl.) Räsänen Placopsis dennanensis (Zahlbr.) I.M. Lamb ex D.J. Galloway Placopsis dusenii I.M. Lamb Placopsis effusa I.M. Lamb Placopsis elixii D.J. Galloway Placopsis ferrosa I.M. Lamb Placopsis fuscidula I.M. Lamb Placopsis gelida (L.) Linds. Placopsis gelidoides I.M. Lamb Placopsis himalayensis D.D. Awasthi & Agarwal Placopsis hiulca (Nyl.) Nyl. Placopsis illita (C. Knight) I.M. Lamb Placopsis isidiophora Placopsis lambii Hertel & V. Wirth Placopsis lateritioides I.M. Lamb Placopsis macrophthalma (Taylor) Nyl. Placopsis microphylla (I.M. Lamb) D.J. Galloway Placopsis pacifica Vain. Placopsis papillosa Vain. Placopsis parellina (Nyl.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis patagonica (Zahlbr.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis perrugosa (Nyl.) Nyl. Placopsis pruinosa D.J. Galloway Placopsis pycnotheca I.M. Lamb Placopsis rhodocarpa (Nyl.) Wetmore Placopsis rhodomma Nyl. Placopsis rhodophthalma (Müll. Arg.) Räsänen Placopsis roivainenii I.M. Lamb Placopsis roseonigra Brodo Placopsis rugosa I.M. Lamb Placopsis salazina I.M. Lamb Placopsis stenophylla (Hue) I.M. Lamb Placopsis subcribellans (I.M. Lamb) D.J. Galloway Placopsis subgelida (Nyl.) Nyl. Placopsis subparellina Nyl. Placopsis tararuana (Zahlbr.) D.J. Galloway Placopsis terricola (Cromb.) I.M. Lamb Placopsis trachyderma (Kremp.) P. James Placopsis tuberculifera (I.M. Lamb) Follmann Placopsis vitellina (Hook. f. & Taylor) C.W. Dodge
Cybertruffle Resources:		Cyberliber Cumulative Index Biological Records Database (1 record)
Links:		Fungal Databases [Systematic Botany and Mycology, USDA] Genbank Google images IMI [CABI Fungus Dried Reference Collection] Index Fungorum Landcare [New Zealand] Mycobank New York Botanic Garden [Virtual Fungus Dried Reference Collection]