Erioderma
Erioderma is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Pannariaceae.[1] They are commonly called mouse ears or felt lichens, and are small, pale brown to olive-brown foliose cyanolichens with a fuzzy upper surface that have the cyanobacteria Scytonema as their photobiont.[2] Most species are found in the tropics of Central and South America, although three species are found in coastal regions of North America where they generally grow on mossy branches in humid sites.[2] All North American species are rare,[2] and two of them, Erioderma mollissimum[3] and Erioderma pedicellatum,[4] are listed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Erioderma pedicellatum is also listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[5] Species of Erioderma can resemble Pannaria, Leioderma, or small Peltigera, but their fuzzy upper surface and lack of veins on their lower surface distinguishes them from these lichens.[2]
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- Anderson, Heidi L.; Ekman, Stefan (2005). "Disintegration of the Micareaceae (lichenized Ascomycota): a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences". Mycological Research 109 (1): 21–30. doi:10.1017/S0953756204001625.
- CABI Bioscience Databases. Available online at http://www.indexfungorum.org/.
- Ertz, Damien; Lawrey, James D.; Sikaroodi, Masoumeh; Gillevet, Patrick M.; Fischer, Eberhard; Killmann, Dorothee; Sérusiaux, Emmanuël (2008). "A new lineage of lichenized basidiomycetes inferred from a two-gene phylogeny: The Lepidostromataceae with three species from the tropics". American Journal of Botany 95 (12): 1548–1556. doi:10.3732/ajb.0800232.
- Ekman, Stefan; Andersen, Heidi L.; Wedin, Mats (2008). "The limitations of ancestral state reconstruction and the evolution of the ascus in the Lecanorales (lichenized Ascomycota)". Systematic Biology 57 (1): 141–156. doi:10.1080/10635150801910451.
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- Ekman, Stefan (2001). "Molecular phylogeny of the Bacidiaceae (Lecanorales, lichenized Ascomycota)". Mycological Research 105 (7): 783–797. doi:10.1017/S0953756201004269.
- Grube, Martin; Winka, Katarina (2002). "Progress in understanding the evolution and classification of lichenized ascomycetes". Mycologist 16 (2): 67–76. doi:10.1017/S0269-915X(02)00206-9.
- Liu, Yajuan J.; Hall, Benjamin D. (2004). "Body plan evolution of ascomycetes, as inferred from an RNA polymerase II phylogeny". PNAS 101 (13): 4507–4512. doi:10.1073/pnas.0400938101.
- Schmitt, I.; Yamamoto, Y.; Lumbsch, H. T. (2006). "Phylogeny of Pertusariales (Ascomycotina): Resurrection of Ochrolechiaceae and new circumscription of Megasporaceae". Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 100: 753–764.
- Staiger, Bettina; Kalb, Klaus; Grube, Martin (2006). "Phylogeny and phenotypic variation in the lichen family Graphidaceae (Ostropomycetidae, Ascomycota)". Mycological Research 110 (7): 765–772. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2006.05.003.
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