Belongs within: Ascomycota. The Lichinales are a clade of fungi lichenised with cyanobacteria that is phylogenetically distant from the main clade of lichenised fungi in the Lecanoromycetes. Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Thallus crustose, fruticose or foliose, sometimes peltate, often gelatinous. Ascomata eventually apothecial but initially more or less perithecial, often formed from pycnidia, opening by a pore, more… Continue reading Lichinales