Letharia

Letharia
	Letharia vulpina in the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles USA.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Letharia; (Th.Fr.) Zahlbr. (1892)
Type species
	Letharia vulpina; (L.) Hue (1899)
Synonyms[1]
	Chlorea Nyl. (1855); Evernia subdiv. Letharia Th.Fr. (1871); Nylanderaria Kuntze (1891); Rhytidocaulon Nyl. ex Elenkin (1916);

Letharia is a genus of fruticose lichens belonging to the family Parmeliaceae.[2]

There were historically two species of Letharia: L. vulpina and L. columbiana.[3] Recent molecular sequence studies published in 2016 confirm at least 6 species in Western North America alone, with more expected to be confirmed using similar methods in other parts of the world.[4]

The typical photobiont is a green alga of genus Trebouxia.[5]

References

"Synonymy: Letharia (Th. Fr.) Zahlbr., Hedwigia 31: 36 (1892)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
Brodo, Irwin (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 411–413.
Altermann, Susanne; Leavitt, Steven D.; Goward, Trevor (September 2016). "Tidying up the genus Letharia: introducing L. lupina sp. nov. and a new circumscription for L. columbiana". The Lichenologist. 48 (5): 423–439. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000396. ISSN 0024-2829. S2CID 88840346.
"Letharia". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria.

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[Species_Fungorum_synonymy-1] "Synonymy: Letharia (Th. Fr.) Zahlbr., Hedwigia 31: 36 (1892)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 10 April 2021.

[Wijayawardene_et_al._2020-2] Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.

[3] Brodo, Irwin (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 411–413.

[4] Altermann, Susanne; Leavitt, Steven D.; Goward, Trevor (September 2016). "Tidying up the genus Letharia: introducing L. lupina sp. nov. and a new circumscription for L. columbiana". The Lichenologist. 48 (5): 423–439. doi:10.1017/S0024282916000396. ISSN 0024-2829. S2CID 88840346.

[5] "Letharia". Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria.