Arthoniales

Arthoniales
Cryptothecia rubrocincta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Arthoniomycetes
Order: Arthoniales
Henssen ex D. Hawksw. & O.E. Erikss. (1986)
Families

Andreiomycetaceae
Arthoniaceae
Chrysotrichaceae
Lecanographaceae
Opegraphaceae
Roccellaceae
Roccellographaceae

The Arthoniales is the second largest order of mainly crustose lichens, but fruticose lichens are present as well.[1] The order contains around 1500 species,[2] while the largest order with lichenized fungi, the Lecanorales, contains more than 14000 species.[3]

  1. ^ Sundin R, Tehler A (July 1998). "Phylogenetic Studies of the Genus Arthonia". The Lichenologist. 30 (4–5): 381–413. doi:10.1006/lich.1998.0155. ISSN 1096-1135.
  2. ^ Frisch A, Thor G, Ertz D, Grube M (August 2014). "The Arthonialean challenge: Restructuring Arthoniaceae". Taxon. 63 (4): 727–744. doi:10.12705/634.20.
  3. ^ Ekman, Stefan; Andersen, Heidi L.; Wedin, Mats (2008-02-01). "The Limitations of Ancestral State Reconstruction and the Evolution of the Ascus in the Lecanorales (Lichenized Ascomycota)". Systematic Biology. 57 (1): 141–156. doi:10.1080/10635150801910451. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 18300027.