Teloschistales

Teloschistales

Teloschistales

Order of lichen-forming fungi


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The Teloschistales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. According to one 2008 estimate, the order contains 5 families, 66 genera, and 1954 species.[1] The predominant photobiont partners for the Teloschistales are green algae from the genera Trebouxia and Asterochloris.[2]

Molecular phylogenetics

The higher-level phylogenetic relationships of the Teloschistales and other members of the two major subclasses of Lecanoromycetes, Lecanoromycetidae and Ostropomycetidae, were clarified in a 2018 publication by Kraichak and colleagues. In the Teloschistales, the family Teloschistaceae has a sister taxon relationship with Megalosporaceae, and the clade containing these two families is itself sister to a clade containing families Brigantiaeaceae and Letrouitiaceae.[3]

Teloschistaceae

Usnochroma

Rufoplaca scotoplaca

Caloplaca conversa

Caloplaca variabilis

Pyrenodesmia chalybaea

Caloplaca teicholyta

Caloplaca atroflava

Caloplaca isidiigera

Caloplaca chlorina

Gyalolechia

Caloplaca cinnamomea

Caloplaca granulosa

Caloplaca polycarpa

Polycauliona impolita

Xanthopeltis rupicola

Megalosporaceae

Megalospora

Austroblastenia

Megaloblastenia marginiflexa

Sipmaniella sulphureofusca

Cladogram showing the phylogeny of some species in representative genera in family Teloschistaceae and in the order Teloschistales; based on Kraichak et al.'s 2018 revised classification of orders and families in Lecanoromycetes (simplified from original).[3]

Families


References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Thüs, Holger; Muggia, Lucia; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Favero-Longo, Sergio E.; Joneson, Suzanne; O’Brien, Heath; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Duque-Thüs, Rhinaixa; Grube, Martin; Friedl, Thomas; Brodie, Juliet; Andrew, Carrie J.; Lücking, Robert; Lutzoni, François; Gueidan, Cécile (2011). "Revisiting photobiont diversity in the lichen family Verrucariaceae (Ascomycota)". European Journal of Phycology. 46 (4): 399–415. doi:10.1080/09670262.2011.629788.
  3. Kraichak, Ekaphan; Huang, Jen-Pan; Nelsen, Matthew; Leavitt, Steven D.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2018). "A revised classification of orders and families in the two major subclasses of Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) based on a temporal approach". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (3): 233–249. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boy060. S2CID 92280920.



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