Lecanoromycetes

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Lecanoromycetes
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Cladonia sobolescens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
(unranked): Leotiomyceta
(unranked): Dothideomyceta
Class: Lecanoromycetes
O.E.Erikss. & Winka (1997)
Subclasses and orders

Subclass Acarosporomycetidae

Subclass Lecanoromycetidae

Subclass Ostropomycetidae

incertae sedis (not placed in a subclass)

Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized fungi. [1] It belongs to the subphylum Pezizomycotina in the phylum Ascomycota. [2] The asci (spore-bearing cells) of the Lecanoromycetes most often release spores by rostrate dehiscence. [1]

The group is monophyletic (composed only of all the descendants of a common ancestor). [3]

Genera of uncertain placement

There are several genera in the Lecanoromycetes that have not been placed into any order or family. These are: [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Miadlikowska, Jolanta; Kauff, F; Hofstetter, V; et al. (2006). "New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes". Mycologia. 98 (6): 1088–1103. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.1088. PMID   17486983.
  2. Hibbett, David S.; Binder, M; Bischoff, JF; et al. (2007). "A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi" (PDF). Mycological Research. 111 (Pt 5): 509–547. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.626.9582 . doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004. PMID   17572334. S2CID   4686378. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-10.
  3. Thorsten Lumbsch, H.; Schmitt, Imke; Palice, Zdenek; Wiklund, Elisabeth; Ekman, Stefan; Wedin, Mats (June 2004). "Supraordinal phylogenetic relationships of Lecanoromycetes based on a Bayesian analysis of combined nuclear and mitochondrial sequences". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 31 (3): 822–32. Bibcode:2004MolPE..31..822L. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.001. PMID   15120381.
  4. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi: 10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2 . hdl: 10481/76378 . S2CID   249054641.