Ecology: Data lacking.

Distribution type: Tropical and subtropical areas, Japan a.o.

Taxonomy: Takenaka et al. (2010: 637) cite Lecanora cinereocarenea (Eschw.) Vain. as a synyom of Lecanora leprosa.

Note: "Metabolites with a naphthalene skeleton have not been isolated from either lichens or cultured mycobionts of the genus Lecanora. The production of lecanopyrone that is structurally and biosynthetically related to fungal metabolites in cultured mycobionts is of great interest. The mycobionts of the lichens seem to have conserved the secondary metabolism of free-living fungi. These metabolic pathways might be normally suppressed in the lichenized condition but expressed in the isolated mycobiont" (Takenaka et al. 2010: 640).

Distribution Database: Distributions

Distribution Database: Discover Life

Picture Database: Tropical Lichens

Molecular Database: Genbank

Synonym Database: Index Fungorum

Synonym Database: Mycobank