Fungalpedia – Note 1760, Lecanora
Lecanora Ach.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Lecanoraceae, Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Lecanora was introduced by Luyken (1809). Taxa are widespread and characterized by crustose lichen thalli with thalline apothecial margins, clavate asci and hyaline, aseptate ascospores (Grube et al. 2004, Śliwa et al. 2012, Wijayawardene et al. 2017).
Type species: Lecanora subfusca (L.) Ach. 1810 (Designated by Choisy, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 76: 522. 1929).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lecanora.
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