Fungalpedia – Note 1761, Lecanoraceae

 

Lecanoraceae

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Lecanorales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

This family was established by Körber (1855), a widely distributed family with species found commonly on rocks, soil or bark (Kalb et al. 2011). Species are characterised by apothecial ascomata, sparingly branched paraphyses, semifissitunicate cylindrical to clavate asci and ellipsoid, subglobose or bacilliform, hyaline ascospores (Kalb et al. 2011).

Type genus: Lecanora Ach., in Luyken, Tentam. Histor. Lichen. Gen. Prim. Lin. Distrib. nov., Göttingae: 90 (1809).

 

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.

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