Mariette S. Cole

TL;DR: A 6-gene, 420-species maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Ascomycota, the largest phylum of Fungi, and a phylogenetic informativeness analysis of all 6 genes and a series of ancestral character state reconstructions support a terrestrial, saprobic ecology as ancestral are presented.

TL;DR: Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of Ascomycota and includes the vast majority of filamentous, ascoma-producing species, and the seven remaining classes formed a monophyletic group that corresponds to Leotiomyceta.

TL;DR: An overview of current knowledge of the major clades of all parmelioid lichens is given and 27 genera within nine main clades are accepted, including 31 of 33 currently accepted parMelioid genera (and 63 of 84 accepted genera of Parmeliaceae).

TL;DR: It is considered pragmatic to continue to use the generic name Phoma for this group of lichenicolous coelomycetes until cultural and molecular information is available, although these fungi may later prove not to be congeneric amongst themselves nor with the species occurring on plants.

TL;DR: The species recalls L. lichenicola, but differs in the more subglobose conidia and the shorter conidiogenous cells as well as in occurring on a different host.