Lepidostromataceae

Lepidostromataceae
Lepidostroma vilgalysii Hodkinson[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Lepidostromatales
Hodkinson & Lücking (2013)
Family: Lepidostromataceae
Ertz, Eb. Fischer, Killmann, Sérus. & Lawrey
Type genus
Lepidostroma
Mägd. & S. Winkl. (1967)
Genera

Lepidostromataceae[2] is the sole family in the fungal order Lepidostromatales, the only known order of basidiomycete fungi composed entirely of lichenized members. The family contains six species in three genera (Ertzia, Lepidostroma, and Sulzbacheromyces).[3] The group's photobionts are chlorococcoid, which serves to distinguish them from Multiclavula, which is morphologically similar, but has coccomyxoid photobionts. All known members grow on soil in tropical regions of Africa and the Americas.

References

  1. ↑ Hodkinson BP, Uehling JK, Smith ME. (2012). "Lepidostroma vilgalysii, a new basidiolichen from the new world". Mycological Progress 11: 827–833. doi:10.1007/s11557-011-0800-z.
  2. ↑ Ertz D, Lawrey JD, Sikaroodi M, Gillevet PM, Fischer E, Killmann D, Sérusiaux E. (2008). "A new lineage of lichenized basidiomycetes inferred from a two-gene phylogeny: The Lepidostromataceae with three species from the tropics". Am J Bot 95: 1548–1556. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800232.
  3. ↑ Hodkinson BP, Moncada B, Lücking R. (2014 [effective publication of associated taxa in online format: 2013]). "Lepidostromatales, a new order of lichenized fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes), with two new genera, Ertzia and Sulzbacheromyces, and one new species, Lepidostroma winklerianum". Fungal Diversity 64 (1): 165–179. doi:10.1007/s13225-013-0267-0. Check date values in: |date= (help)