Sarrameanaceae is a

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of lichen-forming

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in the

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order Sarrameanales. It contains the genera '' Loxospora'' and ''

Sarrameana ''Sarrameana'' is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. It consists of two species. The genus was circumscribed by the lichenologists Antonín Vězda and Peter Wilfred James in 1973, with '' Sarrameana paradoxa'' a ...

'', the

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. The genus ''

Chicitaea ''Chicitaea'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Sarrameanaceae. Established in 2024, it comprises four species that grow as crusts on tree bark in forests across North America, Europe, Australia, and Thailand. The genus was separa ...

'' was proposed in 2024 to contain ''Loxospora'' species containing 2'-''O''-methylperlatolic acid. The family was

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Josef Hafellner Josef Hafellner (1951– ) is an Austrian mycologist and lichenologist. He was awarded the Acharius Medal in 2016 for his lifetime contributions to lichenology. Before his retirement, he was a professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz ...

in 1984. The order Sarrameanales was proposed by Brendan Hodkinson and James Lendemer in 2011, as they had noted that previously published large-scale

molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...

studies had shown that the group of species contained in the family Sarrameanaceae were distinct and separate from the

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containing all of the other orders of the Ostropomycetidae. However, the name Sarrameanales was not validly published according to the rules of botanical nomenclature, because it was not accompanied by a suitable description. Despite this, the order continues to be used in lichenological literature. Sarrameanales is in the Ostropomycetidae; within this subclass, Sarrameanales and the order

Schaereriales ''Schaereria'' is a genus of lichen-forming fungi. It is the sole genus in the family Schaereriaceae, which itself is the only family in the Schaereriales, an order in the subclass Ostropomycetidae of the class Lecanoromycetes. Most ''Schaerer ...

form a

which has a

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relationship with a clade containing the orders

Baeomycetales The Baeomycetales are an order of mostly lichen-forming fungi in the subclass Ostropomycetidae, in the class Lecanoromycetes. It contains 8 families, 33 genera and about 170 species. As a result of molecular phylogenetics research published in ...

and

Pertusariales The Pertusariales are an order (biology), order of fungi in the class Lecanoromycetes, comprising 8 family (biology), families, 31 genera, and over 600 species, many of which form lichens. This diverse group is characterized by complex taxonomy ...

References

Lecanoromycetes Lecanoromycetes families Taxa described in 1984 Taxa named by Josef Hafellner Lichen families {{Lecanoromycetes-stub