Catapyrenium squamellum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Eurotiomycetes Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Catapyrenium
Species: Catapyrenium squamellum

Name

Catapyrenium squamellum (Nyl.) J.W. Thomson, 1987

Substrate and ecology: Over soil or acid rocks and among mosses

World distribution: Know only from SW North America and the West Indies

Basionym

• Verrucaria squamella Nyl., in Hasse, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 449 (1897)

Synonymy

• Dermatocarpon squamellum (Nyl.) Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12(2): 44 (1910)

References

• J.W. Thomson, Bryologist 90(1): 36 (1987)

• Thomson, J.W. (1987) The lichen genera Catapyrenium and Placidiopsis in North America. - The Bryologist 90: 27–39.   **[RLL List # 131 / Rec.# 18497] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Illustration of Catapyreniuim squamellum: p. 30)

Links

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#16) 18 June 2010.

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

English: Earth lichen