Buellia halonia

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Buellia
Species: Buellia halonia

Name

Buellia halonia (Ach.) Tuck., 1866

Basionym: Lecidea halonia Ach., 1803

Synonyms

• Lecidea halonia Ach., 1803
• Baeomyces capensis Taylor in Hook., 1847
• Lecidea disciformis var. halonia (Ach.) Nyl., 1857
• Buellia barrancae (Kremp.) Zahlbr.
• Buellia catalipa A.Massal.
• Buellia disciformis var. halonia (Ach.) Boistel, 1903
• Diploicia capensis (Taylor) C.W.Dodge, 1971
• Buellia flavoareolata (Nyl.), Müll.Arg., 1892
• Lecidea flavoareolata Nyl., 1855

References

• Tuck., Lich. Californ. 26 (1866)

• Tuckerman, E. (1866) Lichenes of California, Oregon and the Rocky Mountains; so far as yet known. With an appendix. J.S. & C. Adams\Amherst.   (Mattick Rec.# 30342 - Literature on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Buellia (pp. 186-189) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Buellia halonia, description: pp. 187-188; color photo and distribution map: p. 187)

• Bungartz, F., Elix, J.A. and Nash III, T.H. (2004) The genus Buellia sensu lato in the Greater Sonoran Desert Region: saxicolous species with one-septate ascospores containing xanthones. The Bryologist 107(4): 459–479.   (RLL List # 198 / Rec. # 26662 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (JSTOR) (Description of Buellia halonia: pp. 462 & 464; black-and-white photos of thallus, apothecia, ascospores and conidiophores: p. 463; distribution map: p. 472)

• Bungartz, F., Nordin, A. and Grube, U. (2007) Buellia (pp. 113-179) 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.   (RLL List # 210 / Rec. # 29889 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Color photo of Buellia halonia in central section of Vol. III)

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist (June 2008)

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories (List "B")

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Buellia halonia

Vernacular names

English: Seaside button lichen   Disc lichen