Strangospora Ochrophora
''Strangospora'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi. It is the only genus in the family (biology), family Strangosporaceae, which itself is of incertae sedis, uncertain taxonomic placement in the Ascomycota. It contains 10 species. Taxonomy The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 1860 by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber, with ''Strangospora pinicola'' assigned as the type species. The family Strangosporaceae was proposed in 2014 by Soili Stenroos, Jolanta Miadlikowska, and François Lutzoni, who used molecular phylogenetics to demonstrate that ''Strangospora'' should be removed from the Lecanorales and placed in its own family. Description Species in the Strangosporaceae are crustose lichens, but sometimes have poorly developed thallus, thalli. They have a chlorococcoid photobiont (i.e., green algae of the genus ''Chlorococcum''). The apothecia are biatorine – i.e. more or less in form, but light in colour and with a soft consistency – and have ...
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