Pertusaria

Pertusaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Pertusariales
Family:	Pertusariaceae
Genus:	Pertusaria; DC. (1805)
Type species
	; DC. (1805)
Synonyms
	Pertusariomyces E.A.Thomas ex Cif. & (1953);

Pertusaria is a large genus of warty crustose lichens 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 , 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[]

Pertusaria diluta
Pertusaria lactea

References[]

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

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[SSFGCL-1] Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2

[Kirk2008-2] 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.

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