Three crustose lichen genera with large spores, large lecanorine apothecia, richly anastomosing narrow paraphyses, and large thick-walled Pertusaria-type or Pertusaria-like asci.
Genera: (roughly)
Ochrolechia spores 1-celled, thin-walled, apothecia superficial, adnate Pertusaria spores 1-celled, thick-walled, often two-layered, apothecia superficial or immersed in verrucae Varicellaria spores 2-celled
The Pertusariaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.
The family was formally circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1846.[1] It contained the genera Pertusaria and Ochrolechia until Pertusaria was shown to be polyphyletic in a 2006 publication. The family Ochrolechiaceae was created to contain Ochrolechia.[2]
As of October 2021, Species Fungorum includes 6 genera and 379 species in the Pertusariaceae.[3]
The Pertusariaceae are a family of lichen-forming fungi in the order Pertusariales.
