Arup A. & Grube M.
(2000):
Is Rhizoplaca (Lecanorales, lichenized Ascomycota) a monophyletic genus?,
Can. J. Bot.,
78: 318–327
Rhizoplaca Zopf is a genus characterized by an umbilicate thallus with an upper and a lower cortex, as well
as a cupulate hypothecium. It has been considered to be related to Lecanora Ach., the type genus of the Lecanoraceae
and, in particular, to the lobate species of this genus. The phylogeny of Rhizoplaca, the monotypic Arctopeltis thuleana
Poelt, and a number of representatives of different groups of Lecanora is studied, using sequences from the nuclear ribosomal
internal transcribed spacer …
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