Highlights•A single fungal partner has long been thought to form the lichen
thallus.•Phylogenetic research has revealed discordance between fungal evolution and …

Species represent a fundamental unit in evolutionary biology and provide a valuable context
for organizing, evaluating, and communicating important biological concepts and principles …

Cladoniaceae is a family of lichenized fungi that belongs to the Lecanorales, Ascomycota.
The family is distributed widely, although several genera are restricted to the Southern …

The lichen‐forming fungal genus Cladonia is species‐rich with approximately 500 described
species. The accepted barcode for fungi (ITS rDNA) often fails in identifying Cladonia spp. In …

In the framework of a worldwide project on the phylogeny of the lichen genus Sticta,
dedicated sampling was performed in four regions of Western Europe, roughly along an east …

Recent studies using sequence data from multiple loci and coalescent-based species
delimitation have revealed several species-level lineages within the phenotypically …

Abstract Species of Russula (Russulaceae), a large, cosmopolitan, ectomycorrhizal fungal
genus are notoriously difficult to identify. To delimit species and to evaluate their …

The Cladia aggregata complex is one of the phenotypically most variable groups in
lichenized fungi, making species determination difficult and resulting in different …

The microalgae of the genus Asterochloris are the preferential phycobionts in Cladonia,
Lepraria and Stereocaulon lichens. Recent studies have highlighted the hidden diversity of …

Despite the recent advancements in recognizing diversity in lichen-forming fungi, assessing
the timing of diversification remains largely unexplored in these important fungal symbionts …