Teloschistales

Elegant sunburst lichen Xanthoria elegans, from here.
Belongs within: Lecanoromycetidae.

The Teloschistales is a clade of lichenised fungi associated with green algae.

<==Teloschistales [Teloschistineae]
    |--Fuscideaceae EB03
    |    |--Fuscidea lygaea LK04
    |    |--Lettauia EB03
    |    |--Maronea EB03
    |    |    |--M. chilensis LK04
    |    |    `--M. constans LK04
    |    |--Orphniospora EB03
    |    |--Ropalospora EB03
    |    `--Sarrameana EB03
    `--+--Megalosporaceae EB03
       |    |--Austroblastenia EB03
       |    |--Megaloblastenia EB03
       |    `--Megalospora LK04
       |         |--M. sulphurata E99
       |         `--M. tuberculosa LK04
       `--Teloschistaceae EB03
            |  i. s.: Cephalophysis EB03
            |         Fulgensia EB03
            |         Ioplaca EB03
            |         Seirophora EB03
            |         Xanthodactylon EB03
            |         Xanthopeltis EB03
            |         Caloplaca ML04
            |           |--C. crocea J87
            |           `--C. gomerana ML04
            |         Josefpoeltia Kondratyuk & Kärnefelt 1997 EB03, E99
            |           |--*J. boliviensis Kondratyuk & Kärnefelt 1997 E99
            |           `--J. sorediosa Kondratyuk & Kärnefelt 1997 E99
            |--+--Letrouitia LK04 [Letrouitiaceae]
            |  |    `--L. domingensis LK04
            |  `--Xanthoria LK04
            |       |--X. elegans E99
            |       |--X. fallax E99
            |       |--X. parietina ML04
            |       `--X. polycarpa LH04
            `--+--Xanthomendoza Kondratyuk & Kärnefelt 1997 LK04, E99
               |    |--*X. mendozae (Räs.) Kondratyuk & Kärnefelt 1997 [=Xanthoria mendozae] E99
               |    `--X. fallax LK04
               `--Teloschistes LK04
                    |--T. chrysophthalmus E99
                    |--T. exilis LK04
                    `--T. flavicans J87

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[E99] Eriksson, O. E. (ed.) 1999. Notes on ascomycete systematics. Nos 2440-2755. Myconet 2: 1-41.

[EB03] Eriksson, O. E., H. O. Barah, R. S. Currah, K. Hansen, C. P. Kurtzman, G. Rambold & T. Laessøe (eds.) 2003. Outline of Ascomycota – 2003. Myconet 9: 1-89.

[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum – Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1-136.

[LH04] Liu, Y. J. & B. D. Hall. 2004. Body plan evolution of ascomycetes, as inferred from an RNA polymerase II phylogeny. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101: 4507-4512.

[LK04] Lutzoni, F., F. Kauff, C. J. Cox, D. McLaughlin, G. Celio, B. Dentinger, M. Padamsee, D. Hibbett, T. Y. James, E. Baloch, M. Grube, V. Reeb, V. Hofstetter, C. Schoch, A. E. Arnold, J. Miadlikowska, J. Spatafora, D. Johnson, S. Hambleton, M. Crockett, R. Shoemaker, G.-H. Sung, R. Lücking, T. Lumbsch, K. O'Donnell, M. Binder, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, C. Gueidan, K. Hansen, R. C. Harris, K. Hosaka, Y.-W. Lim, B. Matheny, H. Nishida, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, A. Rossman, I. Schmitt, H. Sipman, J. Stone, J. Sugiyama, R. Yahr & R. Vilgalys. 2004. Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91 (10): 1446-1480.

[ML04] Miadlikowska, J., & F. Lutzoni. 2004. Phylogenetic classification of peltigeralean fungi (Peltigerales, Ascomycota) based on ribosomal RNA small and large subunits. American Journal of Botany 91 (3): 449-464.