Caliciales

Caliciales. Bessey.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

This order was established by Bessey in 1907, and reported from various habitats (Ekanayaka et al. 2017, Jaklitsch et al. 2016). The order is not easily characterized morphologically and includes both mazaediate and non-mazaediate genera of both crustose, fruticose and foliose genera.

Type family: Caliciaceae Chevall. [as ‘Calicineae’], Fl. gén. env. Paris (Paris) 1: 314 (1826) 

References

Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS 2019 – New and known discolichens from Asia and eastern Europe. Asian Journal of Mycology 2(1), 48–86, Doi 10.5943/ajom/2/1/2