Lecanora

Lecanora is a genus of lichen commonly called rim lichens.[1]: 279 [2] Lichens in the genus Squamarina are also called rim lichens. Members of the genus have roughly circular fruiting discs (apothecia) with rims that have photosynthetic tissue similar to that of the nonfruiting part of the lichen body (thallus).[1] Other lichens with apothecia having margins made of thallus-like tissue are called lecanorine.[1]

Lecanora
Lecanora muralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Lecanora
Ach. (1809)
Type species
Lecanora subfusca
(L.) Ach. (1810)
Diversity
about 500 species

Lecanora has a crustose thallus, trebouxoid photobiont, colourless ascospores and crystals in the amphitecium.[3]: 680 

It is in the family Lecanoraceae in the suborder Lecanorineae.[4][5]

Species
Main article: List of Lecanora species
  • Lecanora campestris (Schaer.) Hue 1888
  • Lecanora conizaeoides Nyl. ex Cromb. 1885[6]
  • Lecanora gangaleoides, Nyl. 1872
  • Lecanora grantii, H. Magn. 1932
  • Lecanora helicopis, (Wahlenb. ex Ach.) Ach. 1814
  • Lecanora mellea, W.A.Weber (1975)
  • Lecanora muralis, (Schreb.) Rabenh. (1845)
  • Lecanora poliophaea, (Wahlenb.) Ach. 1810
  • Lecanora rupicola, (L.) Zahlbr. 1928
  • Lecanora straminea, Wahlenb. ex Ach.
  • Lecanora strobilina, (Spreng.) Kieff. 1895
  • Lecanora usneicola, Etayo, 2006

References
  1. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  2. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
  3. FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND: Lichens including lichen-forming and licheniculous fungi, Revised second edition, Volume one, D. J. Galloway, Manaaki Whenua Press, Landcare Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-478-09376-6
  4. Rim Lichen (Squamarina), Encyclopedia of Life
  5. C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell, Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
  6. Mycobank: Lecanora conizaeoides


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