Fungalpedia – Note 2885, Lawalreea
Lawalreea Diederich.
Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
Classification: Ascomycota genera incertae sedis, Fungi.
Lawalreea was introduced by Diederich (1990) to describe the lichenicolous species L. lecanorae, found on Lecanora persimilis. This genus is characterized by pycnidial conidiomata that are immersed or erumpent, subspherical to ellipsoid, dark, and lack of an ostiole, instead opening irregularly at the apex. The conidiogenous cells are enteroblastic, ampulliform to ellipsoid, hyaline, and smooth-walled. The conidia are simple, hyaline, smooth-walled, falciform, with a rounded apex and a weakly truncated base (Diederich 1990). Lawalreea burgaziana was described by Etayo et al. (2024), occurring on Platismatia glauca, increasing the number of recognized species in the genus to two. Due to the absence of molecular data, Lawalreea remains tentatively placed within Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Hyde et al. 2024). Further phylogenetic studies are needed to clarify its systematic position.
Type species: Lawalreea lecanorae Diederich.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lawalreea
Figure 1 – Lawalreea lecanorae redrawn from Diederich (1990). a Thallus and apothecia of Lecanora persimilis with pycnidia. b Vertical section through an apothecium of L. persimilis with two pycnidia. c Conidiogenous cells with conidia. d Conidia. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b = 100 μm, c, d = 5 μm.
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Meng QF, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand and School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical University, Guizhou 563000, China.
Published online 24 July 2026