Data Phylogenetic datasets - Gyalidea lluxitensis

Flakus is a saxicolous freshwater lichen known from submerged granite rocks in subnival Humid Puna vegetation at 4877–4898 m in the Bolivian Andes. The combined molecular dataset, based on ITS, nucLSU and mitSSU sequences, was aligned and analyzed using maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) approaches.

Both analyses recovered <i>G. lluxitensis</i> within <i>Gyalidea</i> with strong support, demonstrating that the molecular evidence is consistent with its morphological placement despite its atypical ascospore characters. The research was conducted within the project “Eco-evolutionary studies of environmentally sensitive fungal symbioses in freshwater ecosystems using high-throughput sequencing and assessment of their resilience to climate change”, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN), grant no. 2021/43/B/NZ8/02902.</p>