Alectoria ochroleuca

Alectoria ochroleuca

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Alectoria
Species: Alectoria ochroleuca

Name

Alectoria ochroleuca (Hoffm.) A.Massal., 1855

Basionym

• Usnea ochroleuca Hoffm., 1794

Synonyms

• Alectoria ochroleuca f. citrina Räsänen, Ann. bot. Soc. Zool.-Bot. fenn. Vanamo 2(1): 121 (1932)
• Alectoria ochroleuca f. tenuior Cromb., J. Bot., Lond. 10: 232 (1872)
• Alectoria ochroleuca var. citrina (Räsänen) D.Hawksw., Bryologist 72: 249 (1969)
• Bryopogon ochroleucus (Hoffm.) Link, (1833)
• Bryopogon ochroleucus var. tenuior (Cromb.) Gyeln., Feddes Repert. 38: 248 (1935)
• Cornicularia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle, Fl. franç., Edn 3 (Paris) 2: 330 (1805)
• Evernia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) Fr., (1831)
• Evernia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) Fr., (1831) var. ochroleuca
• Lichen ochroleucus Hoffm., Enum. critic. lich. europ. (Bern): 43 (1784)
• Parmelia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) Ach., Method. Lich.: 271 (1803)
• Parmelia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) Ach., (1803) f. ochroleuca
• Parmelia ochroleuca (Hoffm.) Ach., (1803) var. ochroleuca
• Usnea ochroleuca Hoffm., Descr. Adumb. Plant. Lich. 2: 7 (1794)

References

• A. Massal., Sched. critic. 2: 47 (1855)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Alectoria (pp. 150-155) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of Alectoria ochroleuca: pp. 153-154; distribution map for North America: p. 153; color photo: p. 153, plate 102)

• Goward, T. 1999. The lichens of British Columbia - Illustrated Keys - Part 2 - Fruticose Species. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests Research Program, 319 pp. (RLL List # 176 / Rec.# 6980 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Online Reference page. : Alectoria Ach. (pp. 47-50) (Description of Alectoria ochroleuca: p. 49)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Alectoria Ach. (1809) (pp. 117-120) In, The Macrolichens of New England. The New York Botanical Garden Press, 584 pp. (Description of Alectoria ochroleuca: pp. 118-119)

• Purvis, O.W. (1992) Alectoria Ach. (1810) (pp. 67-69) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Description of Alectoria ochroleuca: p. 68)

• Thomson, J.W. (1984) Alectoria Ach. (pp. 33-38). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages. (Description of Alectoria ochroleuca: p. 36; diagram of thallus and distribution map for North America: p. 37)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Alectoria Ach. (pp. 117-119) - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of A. ochroleuca: p. 119)

• LIAS

• North American Lichen Checklist

• Checklist to Norwegian lichens

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Alectoria ochroleuca

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Alectoria ochroleuca

• Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Alectoria ochroleuca

• The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Alectoria ochroleuca)

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Alectoria ochroleuca

Vernacular names

English: Yellow-green witch's hair,   Green witch's hair
suomi: Rakkaluppo
日本語: コガネキノリ