lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungi in the family
Pertusariaceae
The Pertusariaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.
Taxonomy
The family was formally circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1846. It contained the genera ''Pertusaria'' and '' Ochrolechi ...
. It has two species. The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
in 2016 by lichenologists
Sergey Kondratyuk
Sergey Yakovlevich Kondratyuk ( uk, Сергій Якович Кондратюк) (born 17 May 1959) is a Ukrainian botanist specialising in lichenology. His research deals with the taxonomy, floristics, ecology and geography of lichens and lic ...
, Laszlo Lőkös, and Jae-Seoun Hur, with '' Verseghya klarae'' assigned as the type species. This crustose species is found in South Korea, where it grows on the bark of a wide variety of both deciduous and coniferous trees.
Molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
analysis showed that ''Verseghya klarae'' occupied a separate phylogenetic branch in the Pertusariaceae, situated between the genera ''
Ochrolechia
''Ochrolechia'' is a genus of crustose lichens in the family Ochrolechiaceae.
Species
, Species Fungorum accepts 38 species of ''Ochrolechia'':
*'' Ochrolechia aegaea''
*'' Ochrolechia africana''
*'' Ochrolechia alaskana''
*'' Ochrolechia a ...
'' and ''
Pertusaria
''Pertusaria'' is a large genus of warty crustose lichens in the Pertusariaceae family.Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that immersed in warts ...