Lepraria

Lepraria is a genus of leprose crustose lichens that grows on its substrate like patches of granular, caked up, mealy dust grains.[2][3] Members of the genus are commonly called dust lichens.[3]:305[4][5] The main vegetative body (thallus) is made of patches of soredia (little balls of algae wrapped in fungus).[3] There are no known mechanisms for sexual reproduction, yet members of the genus continue to speciate.[2][3] Some species can form marginal lobes and appear squamulose.[3]

Lepraria
Lepraria lobificans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Stereocaulaceae
Genus: Lepraria
Ach. (1803)
Type species
Lepraria incana
(L.) Ach. (1803)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pulina Adans (1763)
  • Conia Vent. (1799)
  • Epinyctis Wallr. (1831)
  • Amphiloma Nyl. (1855)

It is in the family Stereocaulaceae.[6]

Species
  • Lepraria achariana
  • Lepraria adhaerens
  • Lepraria alpina
  • Lepraria atlantica
  • Lepraria atrotomentosa
  • Lepraria aurescens
  • Lepraria bergensis
  • Lepraria borealis
  • Lepraria brasiliensis
  • Lepraria cacuminum
  • Lepraria caesiella
  • Lepraria caesioalba
  • Lepraria celata
  • Lepraria coriensis
  • Lepraria crassissima
  • Lepraria cupressicola
  • Lepraria dibenzofuranica
  • Lepraria diffusa
  • Lepraria eburnea
  • Lepraria ecorticata
  • Lepraria elobata
  • Lepraria friabilis
  • Lepraria gelida
  • Lepraria goughensis
  • Lepraria granulata
  • Lepraria humida
  • Lepraria impossibilis
  • Lepraria incana
  • Lepraria isidiata
  • Lepraria jackii
  • Lepraria lanata
  • Lepraria larrainiana
  • Lepraria lecanorica
  • Lepraria leprolomopsis
  • Lepraria leuckertiana
  • Lepraria lobata
  • Lepraria lobificans
  • Lepraria malouina
  • Lepraria membranacea
  • Lepraria methylbarbatica
  • Lepraria multiacida
  • Lepraria neojackii
  • Lepraria nivalis
  • Lepraria normandinoides
  • Lepraria nothofagi
  • Lepraria nylanderiana
  • Lepraria obtusatica
  • Lepraria pacifica
  • Lepraria pallida
  • Lepraria pulchra
  • Lepraria rigidula
  • Lepraria salazinica
  • Lepraria santamonicae
  • Lepraria santosii
  • Lepraria sekikaica
  • Lepraria sipmaniana
  • Lepraria squamatica
  • Lepraria stephaniana
  • Lepraria straminea
  • Lepraria sylvicola
  • Lepraria texta
  • Lepraria toensbergiana
  • Lepraria toilenae
  • Lepraria torii
  • Lepraria umbricola
  • Lepraria usnica
  • Lepraria vouauxii
  • Lepraria xerophila
  • Lepraria yunnaniana
  • Lepraria zeorinica
  • Lepraria lobificans (yellow KOH spot test)

References
  1. "Synonymy: Lepraria Ach". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. A taxonomic revision of the North American species of Lepraria s.l. that produce divaricatic acid, with notes on the type species of the genus L. incana, James C. Lendemer , Mycologia 103(6): 1216-1229,
  3. Field Guide to California Lichens, Stephen Sharnoff, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-19500-2
  4. Dust Lichen (Lepraria), Encyclopedia of Life
  5. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Name Search
  6. Sharnoff S, Brodo IM, Sharnoff SD (2001). Lichens of North America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08249-5.


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