Leprocaulaceae

Leprocaulaceae
Leprocaulon knudsenii, San Gabriel Mountains, southern California
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Leprocaulales
Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013)
Family: Leprocaulaceae
Lendemer & B.P.Hodk. (2013)
Type genus
Leprocaulon
Nyl. (1879)
Genera

Halecania
Leprocaulon
Speerschneidera

Leprocaulaceae is a family of mostly lichen-forming fungi. It is the single family in the monotypic order Leprocaulales.[1] Leprocaulaceae contains three genera and about 33 species.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wijayawardene et al. 2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).