Icmadophilaceae

Dibaeis Endocena Icmadophila Knightiellastrum Pseudobaeomyces Siphula Siphulella Siphulopsis Thamnolia The Icmadophilaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.

Their apothecia (fruiiting bodies) are typically biatorine in form, meaning they have a light-coloured (not carbonised) margin, and are often pink in colour.

[3] Within these reproductive structures, Icmadophilaceae lichens have unbranched filaments called paraphyses, which are amyloid.

The asci, or spore sacs, in these lichens are thin-walled and lack a thickened top section (apical tholus) but have a thin, amyloid cap at their tips.

These spores come in various shapes – ellipsoid, oblong, fusiform (spindle-shaped), to cutriform (knife-shaped) – and are clear (hyaline) and non-amyloid.