Candelina mexicana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Candelariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Candelariomycetes Subclassis: Candelariomycetidae Ordo: Candelariales

Familia: Candelariaceae
Genus: Candelina
Species: Candelina mexicana

Name

Candelina mexicana (de Lesd.) Poelt, 1974

Basionym: Placodium mexicanum de Lesd., 1914

Synonyms

• Caloplaca mexicana (de Lesd.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 7: 247 (1931)
• Placodium mexicanum B. de Lesd., Lich. Mexique: 10 (1914)
• Xanthoria costariceusis Hillmann

References

• Poelt, Phyton, Horn 16(1-4): 194 (1974)

• Poelt, J. (1974) Zur Kenntnis der Flechtenfamilie Candelariaceae. Ein Beitrag mit besonderer Berucksichtigung einiger sudamerikanischer Arten. Phyton [Austria] 16: 189–210.   (RLL List # 100 / Rec. # 14854 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Candelina mexicana: p. 194; illustration of cortex, p. 190)

• Westberg, M. and Nash III, T.H. (2002) Candelina (pp. 119-120) In: Nash III, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages.   (RLL List # 187 / Rec. # 23035 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Candelina mexicana: p. 119-120)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Candelina Poelt (p. 48) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Publisher, 242 pp.   (RLL List # 180 / Rec. # 21417 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Candelina mexicana: p. 48)

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Candelina mexicana

Vernacular names

English: Mexican candelina lichen