Lecanorales

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Lecanorales
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Lecanora muralis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Subclass: Lecanoromycetidae
Order: Lecanorales
Nannf. (1932)
Suborder and families [1]

The Lecanorales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The order contains 26 families, 269 genera, and 5695 species. [2]

Contents

Families

Suborder Lecanorineae

Incertae sedis or uncertain placement

Unplaced families;

There are several genera in the Lecanorales that have not been placed with certainty into any family. These are: [4]

References

  1. "Lecanorales". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. pp.  364–65. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  3. "Pachyascaceae". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
  4. Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. S2CID   90258634.