Leprocaulaceae
| Leprocaulaceae | |
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| Leprocaulon knudsenii, San Gabriel Mountains, southern California | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Leprocaulales Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013) |
| Family: | Leprocaulaceae Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013) |
| Type genus | |
Nyl. (1879)
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| Genera | |
Leprocaulaceae is a
and about 33 species.Taxonomy
Both the family and the order were
molecular phylogenetic techniques. They redefined the genus Leprocaulon to include several crustose lichens that were previously placed in Lepraria, and defined the new family and order to contain this genetically distinct grouping of species, including the genus Halecania.[2] Speerschneidera was included based on the results of a study published a year later.[3] The authors suggested that Leprocaulales is sister to the Caliciales,[2] although in a later phylogenetic study using a temporal approach, it appeared to be more closely related to the Teloschistales.[3]
Description
Collectively, Leprocaulaceae is a
lichenicolous lichens.[4]
Genera
- Halecania M.Mayrhofer (1987)[5] – 22 spp.
- Leprocaulon Nyl. (1879)[6] – ca. 10 spp.
- Speerschneidera Trevis. (1861)[7] – 1 sp.
References
- hdl:10481/61998.
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- ^ Lamy, E. (1878). "Catalogue raisonné des lichens du Mont-Dore et de la Haute-Vienne". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (in French). 25: 352.
- ^ Trevisan de St-Léon, V.B.A. (1861). "Über Atestia, eine neue Gattung der Ramalinaceen aus Mittelamerika". Flora (Regensburg) (in German). 44: 452.