Encoelia
Encoelia (Fr.) P. Karst. Karsten 1871, IF: 1783
Encoelia was established as a tribe within Peziza sect. Aleuria by Fries (1822) and raised to generic level by Karsten (1871). Rehm (1889: 219) treated Encoelia (together with Eucenangium) as a subgenus of Cenangium in the subfamily Cenangieae in Dermateaceae. Kirschstein (1935) accepted Encoelia with three subgenera, Euencoelia, Encoeliopsis [non Encoeliopsis Nannf.], and Ocellaria. Korf and Kohn (1976) adopted this concept concerning the former two subgenera, by using the older name Phibalis Wallr. (as
subgen. Phibalis and Kirschsteinia, respectively). Encoelia was lectotypified with E. furfuracea (Roth) P. Karst. (Clements and Shear 1931), and Eckblad et al. (1978) proposed its conservation at the generic level against Phibalis Wallr., which had shortly before been lectotypified with the same species, Phibalis furfuracea (Roth) Wallr., by Korf and Kohn (1976).
Reference:
Pärtel K, Baral HO, Tamm H, Pôldmaa K. 2017. Evidence for the polyphyly of Encoelia and Encoelioideae with reconsideration of respective families in Leotiomycetes. Fungal Diversity. 82:183–219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-016-0370-0.
Recent Genus
RutstroemiaXeropilidium
Ionomidotis
Recent Species
Encoelia furfuraceaRutstroemia tiliacea
Xeropilidium dennisii