Chaenotheca subroscida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coniocybales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Coniocybomycetes Ordo: Coniocybales

Familia: Coniocybaceae
Genus: Chaenotheca
Species: Chaenotheca subroscida

Name

Chaenotheca subroscida (Eitner) Zahlbr.

Substrate and ecology: (Sonoran Desert Region): Usually on bark or Picea or Thuja, near the base of old trees in shady and moist positions, rarely on lignum, in old coniferous forests.

Basionym

• Cyphelium subroscidum Eitner, in 88. Jahresber. Schlesisch. Gresellsch. Vaterl. Kultur, (1910) 1911, p. 53.   (Silesia, corticola)

References

Primary

• Zahlbruckner, A. Catalogus Lichenum Universalis 1, 1922, page 578

Secondary

• Goward, T. 1999. The lichens of British Columbia - Illustrated Keys - Part 2 - Fruticose Species. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests Research Program, 319 pp. (RLL List # 176 / Rec.# 6980 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Online Reference page. : Chaenotheca (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr. (pp. 76-88) (Description of C. subroscida: p.87; fig. 10b, p. 81)

• Tibell, L. (1973) Notes on Caliciales. II. Some species from the Nordic countries. - Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 67: 445–455.   [RLL List # 90 / Rec.# 18592] - (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of C. subroscida: plate 1)

• Tibell, L. (1978) Lavordningen Caliciales i Sverige. Slaktena Chaenotheca och Coniocybe. [The lichen order Caliciales in Sweden. The genera Chaenotheca and Coniocybe. - Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 72: 171–188.   [RLL List # 103-91 / Rec.# 18599] - (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of C. subroscida: fig. 16)

• Tibell, L. (1980) The lichen genus Chaenotheca in the Northern Hemisphere. - Symbolae Botanicae Upsaliensis 33: 1–65.   [RLL List # 111-80 / Rec.# 18602] - (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of C. subroscida: fig. 16)

• Tibell, L. (1999) Calicioid lichens and fungi. - In: Ahti, T.; Jørgensen, P.M.; Kristinsson, H.; Moberg, R.; Søchting, U.; Thor, G. (eds.): Nordic Lichen Flora. Volume 1. Introductory Parts. Calicioid Lichens and Fungi. Nordic Lichen Society, Uddevalla, pp. 20-94.   [RLL List # 182 / Rec.# 21646] - (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of C. subroscida: plate 4)

• Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Chaenotheca (pp. 57-61) 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 C. subroscida: p. 60)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Chaenotheca (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr. (pp. 277-286) - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German.   [RLL List # 159 / Rec.# 20405] - (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of C. subroscida: p. 286)

Links

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Chaenotheca subroscida in Index Fungorum.

• Chaenotheca subroscida in MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Chaenotheca subroscida

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

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Chaenotheca subroscida

Vernacular names

English: Lemondrop whiskers,   Needle lichen