Circumscription of the genus Lepra, a recently resurrected genus to accommodate the "Variolaria"-group of Pertusaria sensu lato (Pertusariales, Ascomycota).

Pertusarialean lichens include more than 300 species belonging to several independent phylogenetic lineages. Only some of these phylogenetic clades have been comprehensively sampled for molecular data, and formally described as genera. Here we present a taxonomic treatment of a group of pertusariale...

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Main Authors: Xinli Wei, Imke Schmitt, Brendan Hodkinson, Adam Flakus, Martin Kukwa, Pradeep K Divakar, Paul M Kirika, Jürgen Otte, Anjuli Meiser, H Thorsten Lumbsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5507398?pdf=render