Knudsen K. & Lendemer J.C.
(2016):
A new perspective on Melanophloea, Thelocarpella and Trimmatothelopsis: species previously placed in multiple families are united within a single genus in the Acarosporaceae -
Bryologist,
119(3): 266–279
Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of the lichen family Acarosporaceae have shown that
genera in this group, as traditionally defined, are not monophyletic and that changes are required to
accommodate the discovery that taxa with disparate thallus morphologies are often closely related. Here
we use phylogenetic inferences of mtSSU sequence data to show that seven species (Acarospora dispersa, A.
rhizobola, A. terricola, Melanophloea americana, M. coreana, M. montana and Thelocarpella gordensis),
currently …
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