They are recognized
only by their phenotypic symptoms and sexual or asexual spore-producing
structures on the lichen thalli. Only recently, molecular data and culture dependent approaches
have helped in uncovering the species diversity and in verifying the phylogenetic
position and anamorpheteleomorph relationships of some taxa. Here, we studied the phylogenetic
placement of representative taxa of two lichenicolous genera, the coelomycete
Lichenodiplis and the ascomycete Muellerella.