Lecidella was circumscribed by German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1855.[2] It was not widely used until more than a century later, when Hannes Hertel recognized it first as a subgenus of Lecidea,[3] and then a couple of year after as a distinct genus.[4]
A phylogenetic analysis of the genus using 11 species (mostly from China) found that Lecidella species fall into three major clades, which were proposed as three informal groups: Lecidella stigmatea group, L.elaeochroma group and L.enteroleucella group.[5]
Lecidella was estimated to contain about 80 species in a popular 2008 text,[8] a number that was used in a (2020) survey of fungal classification.[9]As of December2023[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 39 species in the genus.[10]
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Aptroot, André; de Souza, Maria Fernanda; dos Santos, Lidiane Alves; Junior, Isaias Oliveira; Barbosa, Bruno Micael Cardoso; da Silva, Marcela Eugenia Cáceres (2022). "New species of lichenized fungi from Brazil, with a record report of 492 species in a small area of the Amazon Forest". The Bryologist. 125 (3): 435–467. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-125.3.433.
Zhang, Lu Lu; Wang, Xin Yu; Wang, Hai Ying; Wang, Li Song; Hur, Jae-Seoun (2012). "A new species and new records of saxicolous species of the genus Lecidella (Lecanoraceae) from South Korea". The Bryologist. 115 (2): 329–332. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-115.2.329.