Pertusaria

Pertusaria
	Pertusaria paratuberculifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Pertusariales
Family:	Pertusariaceae
Genus:	Pertusaria; DC. (1805)
Type species
	Pertusaria communis; DC. (1805)
Synonyms
	Pertusariomyces E.A.Thomas ex Cif. & Tomas. (1953)

Pertusaria is a large genus of warty crustose lichens It is in the Pertusariaceae family.[1]^:322 The fruiting bodies are usually modified apothecia that immersed in warts on the main body (thallus) with small holes for the spores to emerge, similar to ostioles, or are fully above and lecanorine (spore bearing discs surrounded by a ring of tissue similar to the tissue of the thallus.[1]^:322 Members of the genus are commonly called wart lichens.[1]^:322

The widespread genus contains over 500 species.[2]

Selected species

Pertusaria amara
Pertusaria californica
Pertusaria diluta
Pertusaria favicunda
Pertusaria lactea
Pertusaria opthalmazia
Pertusaria rubefacta
Pertusaria subambigens
Pertusaria velata
Pertusaria xanthodes

References

Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 510. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.

External links

Pertusaria in Index Fungorum

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[SSFGCL-1] Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2

[Kirk2008-2] Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 510. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.