Implementing a cumulative supermatrix approach for a comprehensive phylogenetic study of the Teloschistales (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota)

Phylogeny, taxonomy and diversification events in the Caliciaceae

“…Lumbsch et al 2004;Wedin et al 2005;Miadlikowska et al 2006Miadlikowska et al , 2014 and lower levels (i.e. family and genera, Baloch et al 2010;Gaya et al 2012;Singh et al 2013;Otálora et al 2014;Westberg et al 2015;Resl et al 2015) numerous groups are phylogenetically poorly understood and in great need of further study, and the otherwise well-known Caliciaceae is one of these. Caliciaceae forms a group with the nonmazaediate Physciaceae .…”

“…Caliciaceae forms a group with the nonmazaediate Physciaceae . Although the Caliciaceae and Physciaceae have been suggested to form the suborder Physciineae in the Teloschistales (Miadlikowska et al 2006;Hibbett et al, 2007;Kirk et al 2008;Lumbsch and Huhndorf 2010), recent classifications tend to raise the Caliciaceae-Physciaceae group to ordinal level (Gaya et al 2012) using the name Caliciales. The opinion on the family delimitation varies somewhat.…”

“…If one prefers treating all Caliciaceae and Physciaceae as one family, the name Physciaceae was proposed for conservation and should then be used. Recently, however, a two-family concept tends to be preferred (Gaya et al 2012); Caliciaceae, which includes the non-mazaediate genera with Bacidia-type asci (the Buellia-group of Rambold et al 1994; e.g. the buellioid genera, Dirinaria and Pyxine; Miadlikowska et al 2006Miadlikowska et al , 2014Gaya et al 2012), together with all mazaediate genera in this group, and Physciaceae, which includes taxa belonging to the BPhysciagroup^of Rambold et al (1994), characterized by Lecanoratype asci.…”

“…Recently, however, a two-family concept tends to be preferred (Gaya et al 2012); Caliciaceae, which includes the non-mazaediate genera with Bacidia-type asci (the Buellia-group of Rambold et al 1994; e.g. the buellioid genera, Dirinaria and Pyxine; Miadlikowska et al 2006Miadlikowska et al , 2014Gaya et al 2012), together with all mazaediate genera in this group, and Physciaceae, which includes taxa belonging to the BPhysciagroup^of Rambold et al (1994), characterized by Lecanoratype asci. Within the Caliciaceae the recognition of two subfamilies has recently been proposed (Gaya et al 2012): Calicioideae and Buellioideae, but this was very preliminary, based on a small taxon sampling, and it was rather unclear what other taxa should be included in the two groups in addition to the sampled ones.…”

Brownlielloideae, a new subfamily in the Teloschistaceae (Lecanoromycetes, Ascomycota)

“…Three major clades, corresponding the subfamilies Xanthorioideae, Caloplacoideae and Teloschistoideae were recently introduced within the Teloschistaceae (Arup et al 2013b, Gaya et al 2012, but only the latter has been described formally and considered to include 9 genera (Arup et al 2013b). However, the delimitation of the subfamilies is still not settled since new species and genera continue to be discovered.…”