Class
Lecanoromycetes (Common lichens)
Cladonia portentosa pacifica. Photo: (c) Coley Cheng, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized fungi. It belongs to the subphylum Pezizomycotina in the phylum Ascomycota. The asci (spore-bearing cells) of the Lecanoromycetes most often release spores by rostrate dehiscence.