Oropogon
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Oropogon is a genus of lichenised ascomycetes in the large family Parmeliaceae. It is a genus of roughly 40 currently accepted species.[1] It was previously included in the family Alectoriaceae, but this group has since been subsumed into the Parmeliaceae.
All members of the genus have a fruticose growth form. The most obvious synapomorphic character which separates Oropogon from the rest of the family is the large brown, muriform, ascospores which occur singly in each ascus.[2]
References
- ^ Crespo, A.; Lumbsch, H. T.; Mattsson, J. E.; Blanco, O.; Divakar, P. K.; Articus, K.; Wiklund, E.; Bawingan, P. A.; Wedin, M. (August 2007). "Testing morphology-based hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships in Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota) using three ribosomal markers and the nuclear RPB1 gene". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44 (2): 812–824. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.11.029. PMID 17276700.
- ^ Esslinger, T. L. (1989). "Systematics of Oropogon (Alectoriaceae) in the New World". Systematic Botany Monographs. 28: 1–111. doi:10.2307/25027728. JSTOR 25027728.
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