Vahliellaceae, a new family of cyanobacterial lichens (Peltigerales, Ascomycetes)

Lichenologist

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-72

  Wedin, Mats ^a   Jørgensen, Per Magnus ^b   Ekman, Stefan ^c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

classification; fungi; Lecanoromycetes; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; LECANOROMYCETES; LOBARIACEAE; NEPHROMATACEAE; PANNARIACEAE; PELTIGERACEAE; PELTIGERALES;

EID: 79251641348     PISSN: 00242829     EISSN: 10961135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0024282910000642     Document Type: Article

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