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Dictyonema subsericeum

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Dictyonema subsericeum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Hygrophoraceae
Genus: Dictyonema
Species:
D. subsericeum
Binomial name
Dictyonema subsericeum
Marcano (2022)

Dictyonema subsericeum is a species of basidiolichen in the family Hygrophoraceae.[1] It was described as a new species in 2022 by the Venezuelan lichenologist Vicente Marcano. The holotype was collected by Marcano and L. Castillo on 5 June 2020 from the cloud forests of Raiz de Agua in Mérida National Park (Parque Sierra Nevada de Mérida), Mérida, Venezuela. The specimen, designated as Marcano & Castillo 20-84, is housed in the herbarium of the Universidad de Los Andes (MER). The lichen was found growing epiphytically on branches in the rainforest canopy.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Dictyonema subsericeum V. Marcano". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  2. ^ Marcano, Vicente (2022). "Eight new species of lichenized Basidiomycota in the genera Acantholichen, Cyphellostereum and Dictyonema s.str. (Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae) from northern South America". Phytotaxa. 574 (3): 199–225. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.574.3.1.