Acarospora molybdina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acarosporales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Acarosporomycetidae Ordo: Acarosporales

Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Acarospora
Species: Acarospora molybdina

Acarospora molybdina (Wahlenb.) Trevisan, 1851

Basionym: Lichen molybdinus Wahlenb.

Zahlbruckner, A. Catalogus Lichenum Universalis 5, 1928, page 102
Trevis. in Rivista Periodic. Lavori I.R. Istit. Padova, 1851–52, p. 262.
Trevisan, V. (1853) Saggio di una classazione naturale dei licheni - Memoria I. Sulla tribu delle Patellarie. Mem. II. Sulle tribù delle Lecideine. Revista Periodia Lav. Regia Accad. Sci. (Padova) 1852-1853: 237–271.
Thomson, J.W. (1997) Acarospora (pp. 19–35). In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (A. molybdina, description p. 27; photo & map p. 28)
Index Fungorum
USDA Plants Database
North American Lichen Checklist (Apr. 2008)

Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Acarospora molybdina
The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Acarospora molybdina)
Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Acarospora molybdina

English: Molybdenum cracked lichen