Oropogon

Oropogon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Parmeliaceae
Genus:	Oropogon Th. Fr.

Oropogon is a genus of lichenised ascomycetes in the large family Parmeliaceae. It is a genus of roughly 40 currently accepted species.^[1] It was previously included in the family Alectoriaceae, but this group has since been subsumed into the Parmeliaceae.

All members of the genus have a fruticose growth form. The most obvious synapomorphic character which separates Oropogon from the rest of the family is the large brown, muriform, ascospores which occur singly in each ascus.^[2]

References

1. ^ Crespo, Ana; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Mattsson, Jan-Eric; Blanco, Oscar; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Articus, Kristina; Wiklund, Elisabeth; Bawingan, Paulina A. et al. (2007). "Testing morphology-based hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships in Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota) using three ribosomal markers and the nuclear RPB1 gene". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44 (2): 812–24. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.11.029. PMID 17276700. 
2. ^ Esslinger, T. L. (1989). "Systematics of Oropogon (Alectoriaceae) in the New World". Systematic Botany Monographs 28: 1–111. doi:10.2307/25027728. JSTOR 25027728.