Buellia spuria

Buellia spuria

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 spuria
Varietates: B. s. var. amblyogona – B. s. var. spuria

Name

Buellia spuria (Schaerer) Anzi, 1860

Basionym

• Lecidea spuria Schaer., 1828

Synonyms

• Buellia amblyogona Müll.Arg.
• Buellia atroalba var. spuria (Schaer.) Boistel
• Buellia exilis (Kremp.) Müll.Arg. nom illegit.
• Buellia italica A.Massal.
• Buellia italica var. insularis Bagl.
• Buellia krempelhuberi Zahlbr.
• Buellia lactea (A.Massal.) Körb.
• Buellia liguriensis de Lesd.
• Buellia olivaceofusca (Anzi) Zahlbr.
• Buellia recobarina (A.Massal.) Müll.Arg.
• Buellia spuria var. lactea (A.Massal.) Jatta
• Buellia spuria var. olivaceofusca (Anzi) Jatta
• Buellia spuria var. recombarina (A.Massal.) Jatta
• Buellia verruculosa var. spuria (Schaer.) Mudd
• Catolechia recobarina A.Massal.
• Lecidea nitidula var. spuria (Schaer.) Fr.

References

• Anzi, Cat. Lich. Sondr. 87 (1860)

• Anzi, M. (1860) Catalogus lichenum quos in provincia Sondriensi collegit et ordinavit et in ordinem systematicum digessit presbyter M. Anzi. Tip. C. Franchi\Novi-Comi. 126 pp.   (Mattick Rec.# 30927 - 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. (Description, color photo and distribution map of Buellia spuria: p. 188)

• Bungartz, F. and Nash III, T.H. (2004) The Buellia aethalea-group in the Greater Sonoran Desert Region with reference to similar species in North America. The Bryologist 107(4): 441–458.   (RLL List # 198 / Rec. # 26661 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (PDF file) (Description of Buellia spuria: pp. 448-49; black-and-white photos of thallus, apothecium, and ascospores: p. 450; map of distribution in the Greater Sonoran Desert Region: p. 453)

• 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. (Description and distribution map of Buella spuria: pp. 167-168)

• Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) Buellia (pp. 129-137) In, The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Buellia spuria: p. 136)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Buellia (pp. 123-141). In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (Description of Buellia spuria: pp. 139-140; distribution map: p. 139)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Buellia (p. 190-200 - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp. (Buellia spuria: p. 200)

• 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

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Buellia spuria

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Buellia apuria

Vernacular names

English: Sunken button lichen;   Disc lichen