H. australis H. castaneocinerea H. scalaris H. stoechadiana H. tinderryensis Hypocenomyce is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Ophioparmaceae.

[1] Species in the genus grow on bark and on wood, especially on burned tree stumps and trunks in coniferous forest.

[2] The genus was circumscribed in 1951 by French lichenologist Maurice Choisy to contain the single species Hypocenomyce scalaris,[3] a lichen that was first formally described by Erik Acharius in 1795.

Choisy's original concept of the genus featured a squamulose thallus, adnate apothecia of the lecideine type (i.e., lacking algae and an amphithecium, with a black carbonized margin as in the genus Lecidea) and pycnoconidia that are short, straight, and cylindrical.

Based on these results, the genus was split into different genera – Carbonicola, Fulgidea, and Hypocenomyce.