Lecanorales

Lecanorales
Lecanora muralis
Lecanora muralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Subclass: Lecanoromycetidae
Order: Lecanorales
Nannf. (1932)
Suborder and families[1]

The Lecanorales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota. The order contains 26 families, 269 genera, and 5695 species.[2]

  1. ^ "Lecanorales". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. pp. 364–65. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.