Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Tuckermanopsis
Species: Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

Name

Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla (Willd.) Hale, 1987

Substrate and ecology (Sonoran region): On bark, wood, or rock.

Synonyms

• Basionym
• Lichen chlorophyllus Willd., in Humboldt, Fl. Friberg. Spec. (Berlin): 20 (1793)
• Homotypic
• Cetraria chlorophylla (Willd.) Poetsch, in Poetsch & Schiderm., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 6: 121 (1872)
• Platysma chlorophyllum (Willd.) Vain., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 6: 121 (1881)
• Heterotypic
• Cetraria scutata sensu auct. brit.; fide Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (2002)
• Cetraria sepincola sensu auct. 19th C
• Cetraria ulophylla (Ach.) Rebent., Prodr. fl. neomarch.: 313 (1804)
• Lichen sepincola sensu Dickson (1793)
• Platysma ulophyllum Ach., Lich. Scand. (Uppsala): 82

References

• Hale, in Egan, Bryologist 90(2): 164 (1987)

• Egan, R.S. (1987) A fifth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. - The Bryologist 90(2): 77–173.   (RLL List # 133 / Rec.# 4699 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Tuckermanopsis (pp. 691-697) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of T. chlorophylla and distribution map for North America: p. 692; color photo: p. 693, plate 850)

• Esslinger, T.L. (2004) Tuckermanopsis (pp. 546-548) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages. (Description of T. chlorophylla and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 547)

• Purvis, O.W. (1992) Cetraria Ach., 1803 (pp. 173-176) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Description of Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla: p. 174 [as Cetraria chlorophylla])

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Tuckermanopsis Gyeln. (pp. 370-371) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec.# 26085 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of T. chlorophylla: p. 370; color photo: p. 371)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Tuckermanopsis Gyeln. (p. 195-197) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp.   (RLL List # 180 / Rec.# 21417 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description and color photo of T. chlorophylla: p. 196)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#14) 8 Oct 2008

• Index Fungorum (as Tuckermanopsis)

• MycoBank (spelled Tuckermanopsis)

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

• The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

• Picasa Web Albums - Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

• British Lichens (Mike Sutcliffe, Gateshead, England) - Tuckermanopsis chlorophylla

Vernacular names

English: Powdered wrinkle-lichen,   Greenleaf tuckermanopsis lichen
suomi: ruskoröyhelö
Nederlands: Bruin boerenkoolmos