Arup U. & Grube M.
(1999):
Where does Lecanora demissa (Ascomycotina, Lecanorales) belong?,
Lichenologist,
31(5): 419-430
Lecanora demissa (Körb.) Zahlbr. is a crustose, lobate lichen that
produces soredia and conidiomata but no apothecia. Its placement in Lecanora has
long been questioned but nothing better has been proposed. We have studied the
nuclear rDNA of the ITS regions and the SSU of L. demissa. In an alignment of the
ITS regions of several representatives of Lecanora s. lat. it could clearly be shown by
a PAUP analysis, using Aspicilia caesiocinerea as outgroup, that L. demissa does not
belong to Lecanora. …
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