Lepidostroma

Lepidostroma is a genus in the family Lepidostromataceae. The genus is distinguished from all other lichenized clavarioid fungi, Ertzia, and Sulzbacheromyces ) by having a distinctly thallus with scattered to dense rounded to squamules. Four species are known from the tropics of Africa and the Americas.

Species

Lepidostroma calocerum
Lepidostroma rugaramae
Lepidostroma vilgalysii
Lepidostroma winklerianum

The taxon Lepidostroma asianum, described from Japan, is considered synonymous with the Asian species Sulzbacheromyces sinensis. Other species once classified in this genus have since been transferred to other genera, including:

Lepidostroma akagerae is now Ertzia akagerae
Lepidostroma caatingae is now Sulzbacheromyces caatingae.