{{Short description|Family of fungi}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Stereocaulon tomentosum - Flickr - pellaea.jpg | image_caption = ''[[Stereocaulon tomentosum]]'' | taxon = Stereocaulaceae | authority = [[Chevall.]] (1826) | type_genus = ''[[Stereocaulon]]'' | type_genus_authority = [[Hoffm.]] (1796) | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''[[Hertelidea]]''<br /> ''[[Lepraria]]''<br /> ''[[Stereocaulon]]''<br /> ''[[Squamarina]]''<br /> ''[[Xyleborus (lichen)|Xyleborus]]'' }}
The '''Stereocaulaceae''' are a [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] of [[lichen]]-forming [[fungi]] in the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Lecanorales]]. It contains five [[genus|genera]].<ref name="Lücking et al. 2017"/> Species of this family are widely distributed in [[temperate]] [[boreal ecosystem|boreal]] and [[Southern Hemisphere|austral]] regions.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Cannon PF, Kirk PM |title=Fungal Families of the World |publisher=CABI|location=Wallingford|year=2007 |page=339 |isbn=978-0-85199-827-5}}</ref>
==Genera== *''[[Hertelidea]]'' {{small|Printzen & Kantvilas (2004)}}<ref name="Printzen & Kantvilas 2004"/> – 6 spp. *''[[Lepraria]]'' {{small|Ach. (1803)}} – 86 spp.<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Lepraria"/> *''[[Stereocaulon]]'' {{small|Hoffm. (1796)}} – 45 spp.<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Stereocaulon"/> *''[[Squamarina]]'' {{small|Poelt (1958)}} – 4 spp.<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Squamarina"/> *''[[Xyleborus (lichen)|Xyleborus]]'' {{small|R.C.Harris & Ladd (2007)}}<ref name="Harris & Ladd 2007"/> – 2 spp.
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Lepraria">{{cite web |author=Source dataset. [[Species Fungorum]] Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+ |title=''Lepraria'' |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5CPQ |work=[[Catalog of Life]] Version 2021-09-21 |access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Squamarina">{{cite web |author=Source dataset. [[Species Fungorum]] Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+ |title=''Squamarina'' |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7LQJ |work=[[Catalog of Life]] Version 2021-09-21 |access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="CoL-Fungorum: Stereocaulon">{{cite web |author=Source dataset. [[Species Fungorum]] Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+ |title=''Stereocaulon'' |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7N67 |work=[[Catalog of Life]] Version 2021-09-21 |access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="Harris & Ladd 2007">{{cite journal |last1=Harris |first1=R.C. |last2=Ladd |first2=D. |year=2007 |title=New taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ozark Ecoregion |journal=Opuscula Philolichenum |volume=4 |pages=57–68}}</ref>
<ref name="Lücking et al. 2017">{{cite journal |last1=Lücking |first1=Robert |last2=Hodkinson |first2=Brendan P. |last3=Leavitt |first3=Steven D. |year=2017 |title=The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera |journal=The Bryologist |volume=119 |issue=4 |pages=361–416 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361 |s2cid=90258634}}</ref>
<ref name="Printzen & Kantvilas 2004">{{cite book |last1=Printzen |first1=C. |last2=Kantvilas |first2=G. |year=2004 |chapter=''Hertelidea'', genus novum Stereocaulacearum (Ascomycetes lichenisati) |series=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |editor-last1=Döbbeler |editor-first1=P. |editor-last2=Rambold |editor-first2=G. |title=Contributions to Lichenology. Festschrift in Honour of Hannes Hertel |publisher=J. Cramer |volume=88 |pages=539–553 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279866558}}</ref>
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[[Category:Stereocaulaceae|*]] [[Category:Lichen families]] [[Category:Lecanoromycetes families]] [[Category:Taxa named by François Fulgis Chevallier]] [[Category:Taxa described in 1826]]
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