Fungalpedia – Note 1764, Letrouitiaceae

 

Letrouitiaceae Hafellner & Bellem.

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

Letrouitiaceae was introduced by Hafellner & Bellemère (1981). Taxa are characterised by crustose thalli with chlorococcoid photobiont, apothecial ascomata, usually with yellow-orange to purple brown pigments, paraphyses filiform, unbranched to sparingly branched, asci semifissitunicate, weakly amyloid and ellipsoid ascospores (Jaklitsch et al. 2016).

Type genus: Letrouitia Hafellner & Bellem. 1982.

 

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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