Fungalpedia – Note 2892, Llanorella
Llanorella Alstrup & Olech ex Diederich & Brackel.
Citation when using this data: Meng QF et al. – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
Classification: Ascomycota genera incertae sedis, Fungi.
Llanorella was initially invalidly introduced by Alstrup et al. (2018) to accommodate the sole type species Llanorella ramalinae. Diederich et al. (2024) validly redescribed it. This genus is characterized by an often-sterile superficial net of blackish hyphae that occasionally produces sterile globules, central agglomerations of dark brown conidia, or terminal conidia. Due to the lack of molecular data, Llanorella is tentatively placed within Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Hyde et al. 2024).
Type species: Llanorella ramalinae Alstrup & Olech ex Diederich & Brackel, on the thallus of Ramalina. (Alstrup et al. 2018).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Llanorella.
Figure 1 – Llanorella ramalinae redrawn from Diederich et al. (2024). a–c Sterile colony over the thallus of Ramalina sp. d Sterile hyphae. e Sterile bulbils produced laterally on hyphae. f Sporodochium-like agglomerations of conidia. Scale bars: a–c = 500 μm, e, f = 10 μm.
References
Entry by
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 5 August 2026