Lichen taxonomy for the 21st century: A revision of the genus Lepraria S.L. in North America north of Mexico

Title: Lichen taxonomy for the 21st century: A revision of the genus Lepraria S.L. in North America north of Mexico
Identifier: d_2009_2013:b9fc42dae5ec:11188
identifier: 11571
Creator: Lendemer, James C.,
Contributor: William R. Buck
Date: 2012
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Systematic biology | Microbiology
Abstract: The results of a series of studies of lichens are presented. These studies are hoped to codify a forward for taxonomic progress in the group. Chapter one presents a standardized morphological terminology and descriptive scheme for the sterile crustose genus Lepraria. Chapters two through seven present a series of studies where molecular phylogenetic analyses of nrITS sequence were used to resolve species boundaries in Cladonia (III), Lepraria (IV-VII), and Punctelia (II). Chapter eight reveals not all sterile crustose lichens resemble their congeners. Chapter nine presents a study in the use of molecular data to place an unknown sterile crustose lichen in higher level classification of fungi. Chapter ten uses that method to revise the circumscriptions of Lepraria and the sterile fruticose genus Leprocaulon. Finally, chapter eleven comprises a taxonomic revision of the crustose species of Lepraria s. str. that occur in North America north of Mexico.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Biology

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