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Pertusaria
Pertusaria paratuberculifera
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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

References

  1. ^ a b c Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  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.