Rhizocarpaceae Sporastatiaceae The Rhizocarpales are an order of lichen-forming fungi in the subclass Lecanoromycetidae of the class Lecanoromycetes.

The order was originally proposed by the lichenologists Jolanta Miądlikowska and Francois Lutzoni in 2007, following a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Lecanoromycetes.

[3] This split was not accepted in a later critical analysis of the temporal phylogenetic approach to fungal classification.

The ascomata are in the form of an apothecium that is either immersed in the substrate or sessile, lecideine or emarginate.

The asci are semifissitunicate, meaning that the two walls of the ascus do not completely separate during the discharge of the ascospore.