Lecanoromycetes

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]

Lecanoromycetes
Cladonia sobolescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Clade:	Leotiomyceta
(unranked):	Dothideomyceta
Class:	Lecanoromycetes O.E.Erikss. & Winka (1997)
Subclasses and orders
Subclass Acarosporomycetidae Acarosporales Subclass Lecanoromycetidae Caliciales Lecanorales Lecideales Leprocaulales Peltigerales Rhizocarpales Sporastatiales Teloschistales Subclass Ostropomycetidae Agyriales Baeomycetales Graphidales Gyalectales Odontotrematales Ostropales Pertusariales Sarrameanales Schaereriales Thelenellales incertae sedis (not placed in a subclass) Candelariales Micropeltidales Turquoiseomycetales Umbilicariales

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]

• Argopsis Th.Fr. (1857) – 1 sp.
• Ascographa Velen. (1934) – 1 sp.
• Bartlettiella D.J.Galloway & P.M.Jørg. (1990) – 1 sp.
• Bouvetiella Øvstedal (1986) – 1 sp.
• Buelliastrum Zahlbr. (1930) – 2 spp.
• Haploloma Trevis. (1857) – 1 sp.
• Hosseusia Gyeln. (1940) – 3 spp.
• Korfiomyces Iturr. & D.Hawksw. (2004) – 1 sp.
• Maronella M.Steiner (1959) – 1 sp.
• Notolecidea Hertel (1984) – 1 sp.
• Petractis Fr. (1845) – 3 spp.
• Piccolia A.Massal. (1956) – 10 spp.
• Ravenelula Speg. (1881) – 2 spp.
• Robincola Velen. (1947) – 1 sp.
• Roburnia Velen. (1947) – 1 sp.