S. aggregatus S. albostrigosus S. deslooveri S. guatemalensis S. microcarpus S. verrucosus Spinomyces is a genus of fungi in the family Gomphillaceae.

In 1961,[4] the mycologists Augusto Chaves Batista and Generosa Emília Pontual Peres first proposed the name Spinomyces, using a specimen they called S. genipae.

However, when scientists later examined this original specimen, they discovered it was actually a mixture of two different lichens – one that appeared to be Tricharia albostrigosa (without reproductive structures) and another species of Echinoplaca.

[5] Rather than basing it on the mixed-up Echinoplaca specimen as had been previously suggested by some researchers in 1998,[6] they chose to establish the genus with Tricharia albostrigosa (now Spinomyces albostrigosus) as its type species.

[5] These lichens form a continuous, smooth layer on leaf surfaces, characterised by distinctive white bristles.