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Current Research Projects - Basidiolichens:

 

 

Lichenization is rare in the Basidiomycota. Only seven genera and around 50 species (<1% of all lichens) form genuine lichens. Lichens are widely dispersed among phylogenetically unrelated groups and produce clavarioid, agaricoid (pileate), cyphelloid, stereoid, and corticioid (resupinate) basidiocarps, as well as crustose, squamulose and foliose lichen thalli.

Clades in the Basidiomycota containing lichens otherwise exhibit a wide range of saprotrophic, pathogenic, mycorrhizal, and lichenicolous forms, with no clear indication of the pathway that led to a lichenized state.

Lichens are found in six distinct clades of the Basidiomycota:

 

CantharellalesMulticlavula

HymenochaetalesSchizopora, Resinicium (both weakly lichenized)

CorticialesMarchandiomphalina foliacea

AthelialesAthelia

Lepidostromatales: Lepidostroma

Agaricales:  Acantholichen, Dictyonema, Lichenomphalia, Cora, Corella, Cyphellostereum

 

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D glabratum

Cora sp.

D sericeum crustose

Dictyonema sericeum (crustose)

Lichenomphalia

Lichenomphalia hudsoniana

Lepidostroma

Lepidostroma calocerum