Aspicilia cinerea

Aspicilia cinerea

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Megasporaceae
Genus: Aspicilia
Species: Aspicilia cinerea

Name

Aspicilia cinerea (L.) Körber, 1855

Basionym

• Lichen cinereus L., 1767

Substratum: On exposed siliceous rock, schist or volcanic rock.

Synonyms

• Lecanora cinerea (L.) Sommerf.
• Urceolaria cinerea (L.) Ach.

References

• Körb., Syst. Lich. Germ.: 164 (1855)

• Koerber, G.W. (1855) Systema Lichenum Germaniae (I-XXXIV). Die Flechten Deutschlands mikroscopisch geprüft, kritisch gesichtet, charakteristisch beschrieben und systematisch geordnet. Breslau.

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Aspicilia (pp. 167-170) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of A. cinerea: pp. 168-69; N. A. distribution map and color photo: p. 168)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Aspicilia (pp. 64-68) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description, color photo, and map of A. cinerea: p. 66)

• Owe-Larsson, B., Nordin, A. and Tibell, L. (2007) Aspicilia (pp. 61-108) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages. (A. cinerea, description and Sonoran Desert Region distribution map: pp. 76-77)

• Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) Aspicilia (pp. 96-100) In, The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (A. cinerea: p. 99)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Aspicilia (pp. 33-35) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp. (Description and color photo of A. cinerea: p. 33)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Aspicilia (pp. 52-96). In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (Description of A. cinerea: p. 69; black-and-white photo, and distribution map: p. 68)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Aspicilia (pp. 36-37). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (A. cinerea: pp. 36-37)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Aspicilia (pp. 146-154 - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp. (A. cinerea: p. 151; color photo: p. 151)

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist (July 2008)

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Aspicilia cinerea

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Aspicilia cinerea

• A Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Aspicilia cinerea

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Aspicilia cinerea

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Aspicilia cinerea

• Lichen picture list for Iran (Mohammad Sohrabi & H.J.M. Sipman - Aspicilia cinerea

Vernacular names

English: Cinder lichen;   Rimmed lichen