Materials and methods
Sampling
Fresh samples and herbarium vouchers of Lichenodiplis and
Muellerella were used for morphological and molecular analyses;
only freshly collected sample were used for culture isolation
(Table 1). Herbarium material from BR, GZU and the
private collection of Josef Hafellner were examined and a total
of 94 specimens of Lichenodiplis hawksworthii, L. lecanorae, L.
lichenicola, L. pertusariicola, Muellerella atricola, and M. lichenicola
infecting 33 different lichen hosts were included (Table S1).