Caloplaca wrightii

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Teloschistaceae
Subfamilia: Caloplacoideae
Genus: Caloplaca
Species: Caloplaca wrightii

Name

Caloplaca wrightii (Tuck.) Fink, 1935

Basionyms

• Placodium ferrugineum d. wrightii Tuck., 1882
• Placodium ferrugineum var. wrightii Willey, 1882

Synonyms

• Placodium ferrugineum d. wrightii Tuck., Syn. N. Am. Lich. 1: 178, (1882)
• Caloplaca hensseniana Kalb, Lich. Neotrop. Exs. 454, (1990)
• Caloplaca neotropica Wetm., Mycologia 86: 827, (1995).

References

• Fink, Lich. Fl. U.S. : 359 (1935).

• Fink, B. (1935) The Lichen Flora of the United States. Completed for Publication by Joyce Hedrick. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. xii + 426 pp.   (RLL List # 34 / Rec. # 5696 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Wetmore, C.M. (2007) Caloplaca (pp. 179-220). 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. # 30452 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Caloplaca wrightii: p. 218)

• Wetmore, C.M. 2004. The Isidiate Corticolous Caloplaca Species in North and Central America. The Bryologist 107(3): 284–292. RLL List # 196 / Rec.# 25795 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(2004)107[0284:TICCSI]2.0.CO;2 JSTOR RLL (PDF) Reference page.  (Caloplaca wrightii color photo: p. 290, fig. 7)

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#17) 16 May 2011

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Caloplaca wrightii

Vernacular names

English: Wright's orange lichen