Acarospora nicolai

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 nicolai

Name

Acarospora nicolai de Lesd., 1914

Type: MEXICO. Puebla: Tepoxuchitl, 1910, Friar Nicolas.

Substrate and ecology: All types collected on sandstone. In Kansas, A. nicolai occurred on Pennsylvanian sandstone; in Oklahoma, on Permian "redbeds" of Rush Springs Formation sandstone. (Knudsen & Morse 2009)

Synonymy

• Acarospora caesiofusca (Müll.Arg.) H.Magn., 1929   (Source: Knudsen & Morse 2009)

References

• B. de Lesd., Lich. Mexique 1914 (page 16)

• Bouly de Lesdain, M. (1914) Lichens du Mexique (états de Puebla et du Michoacan) recueillis par le frère Arsène Brouard. - imp. I. Escalante, S.A.\Mexico. 31 pp. [1]

• Knudsen, K. and Morse, C.A. (2009) Acarospora nicolai (Acarosporaceae), a rediscovered species. The Bryologist 112(1): 147–151. (Black-and-white photo of Acarospora nicolai: p. 148, fig. 1)

• Knudsen, K; Lendemer, J.C. and Harris, R.C. (2011) Studies in lichens and lichenicolous fungi – no 15: miscellaneous notes on species from eastern North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 9: 45–75. (PDF document) (Discussion of Acarospora nicolai: pp. 54-55)