Contributions United States National Herbarium 34: xx (1968).
Type species:
Family: Parmeliaceae.
Description: A foliose lichen genus in the Parmeliaceae with 18 species. Thallus loosely attached, grey; pseudocyphellae laminal; upper cortex prosoplectenchymatous, lower cortex at least partly black with sparse rhizines; pycnidia marginal; ascospores ellipsoid; atranorin main cortical secondary metabolite; species producing several depsidones as medullary substances. Greatest species diversity in eastern and southeastern Asia (Kukwa et al. 2012: 43).
- Cetrelia alaskana (W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia braunsiana (Müll. Arg.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia cetrarioides (Delise) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia chicitae (W.L. Culb.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia collata (Nyl.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia davidiana W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia delavayana W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia isidiata (Asahina) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia japonica (Zahlbr.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia monachorum (Zahlbr.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia nuda (Hue) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia olivetorum (Nyl.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia orientalis Randlane & Saag
- Cetrelia pseudocollata Randlane & Saag
- Cetrelia pseudolivetorum (Asahina) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia sanguinea (Schaer.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
- Cetrelia sayanensis Otnyukova, Stepanov & Elix
- Cetrelia sinensis W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.