Circinaria contorta

Circinaria contorta

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Megasporaceae
Genus: Circinaria
Species: Circinaria contorta

Name

Circinaria contorta (Hoffm.) A. Nordin, Savić & Tibell, 2010

Basionym

• Verrucaria contorta Hoffm., Descr. Adumb. Plant. Lich. 1(4): 97 (1790)

Synonyms

• Aspicilia calcarea var. contorta (Hoffm.) Körb., Parerga lichenol. (Breslau) 1: 95 (1859)

• Aspicilia contorta (Hoffm.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 166 (1855)

• Aspicilia contorta (Hoffm.) Körb. Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 166 (1855) f. contorta

• Aspicilia contorta (Hoffm.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 166 (1855) subsp. contorta

• Aspicilia contorta (Hoffm.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 166 (1855) var. contorta

• Circinaria contorta (Hoffm.) A. Nordin, Savić & Tibell, Mycologia 102(6): 1341 (2010) subsp. contorta

• Lecanora calcarea var. contorta (Hoffm.) Hepp, Flecht. Europ.: no. 629 (1860)

• Lecanora cinerea var. contorta (Hoffm.) Malbr., Bull. Soc. Amis Sci. Nat. Rouen, Sér. II 4: 259 (1868)

• Lecanora contorta (Hoffm.) J. Steiner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 65: 199 (1915)

• Lecanora contorta (Hoffm.) J. Steiner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 65: 199 (1915) f. contorta

• Lecanora contorta (Hoffm.) J. Steiner, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 65: 199 (1915) var. contorta

• Lichen calcareus var. contortus (Hoffm.) Wahlenb., Fl. Suec. 2: 808 (1826)

• Lichen contortus (Hoffm.) Dicks., Fasc. pl. crypt. brit. (London) 4: 21 (1801)

• Pachyospora calcarea var. contorta (Hoffm.) A. Massal., Ric. auton. lich. crost. (Verona): 43, fig. 75 (1852)

• Parmelia calcarea var. contorta (Hoffm.) Stenh., Nov. Sched. Critic. Lich. 14: 5 (1833)

• Parmelia contorta (Hoffm.) Spreng., Syst. veg., Edn 16, 4(1): 298 (1827)

• Urceolaria contorta (Hoffm.) DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle, Fl. franç., Edn 3 (Paris) 2: 370 (1805)

• Urceolaria contorta (Hoffm.) DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle (1805) var. contorta

• Urceolaria hoffmannii var. contorta (Hoffm.) Ach., Methodus, Sectio prior: 145 (1803)

• Verrucaria contorta Hoffm., Descr. Adumb. Plant. Lich. 1(4): 97 (1790)

• Zeora calcarea var. contorta (Hoffm.) Flot., Jber. schles. Ges. vaterl. Kultur 27: 128 (1849)

Primary references

• A. Nordin, Savić & Tibell, Mycologia 102(6): 1341 (2010)

• Nordin, A.; Savić, S. and Tibell, L. 2010: Phylogeny and taxonomy of Aspicilia and Megasporaceae. - Mycologia 102(6): 1339–1349.   **[RLL List # 221 / Rec.# 32471] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Article)

Additional references

• Kremp., Denkschrift. Kgl. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 2(4): 175 (1861).

• Krempelhuber, A. von (1861) Die Lichenflora Bayerns oder Aufzählung der bisher in Bayern (diesseits des Rheins) aufgefundenen Lichenen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der verticalen Verbreitung dieser Gewächse in den Alpen. Denkschr. K. bayer. bot. Ges. Regensburg 4: 1–317.   **[Mattick Rec. # 23716] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)**

• Foucard, T. (1990) Svensk skorplavsflora. Interpublishing, Stockholm.   **[RLL List # / Rec.# 5962] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Illustration of Aspicilia contorta subsp. contorta: photo 28)

• Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D.; and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Aspicilia (pp. 167-170) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22465] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Description, N. A. distribution map and color photo of Aspicilia contorta: p. 169)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Aspicilia (pp. 64-68) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22402] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Description, color photo, and map of Aspicilia contorta: p. 66)

• Owe-Larsson, B.; Nordin, A.; and Tibell, L. (2007) Aspicilia (pp. 61-108) 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.# 30254] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Aspicilia contorta, description, and Sonoran Desert Region distribution map: pp. 79-80)

• Purvis, O.W.; Coppins, B.J.; Hawksworth, D.L.; James, P.W.; and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) Aspicilia (pp. 96-100) In, The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp.   **[RLL List # 151 / Rec.# 15105] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Aspicilia contorta: p. 98)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Aspicilia (pp. 36-37). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.   **[RLL List # 151 / Rec.# 15105] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Aspicilia contorta: p. 37)

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Aspicilia (pp. 64-68) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages.   **[RLL List # 196 / Rec.# 26085] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Description of Aspicilia contorta: p. 66; color photo: p. 67)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Aspicilia (pp. 146-154 - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.   **[RLL List # 159 / Rec.# 20405] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Aspicilia contorta: pp. 151 & 153; color photo: p. 149)

Links

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#20) 19 April 2015.

• Circinaria contorta in Index Fungorum.

• Circinaria contorta in MycoBank.

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Circinaria contorta

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Aspicilia contorta

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Aspicilia contorta

• British Lichens (Species Gallery) - Aspicilia contorta

Vernacular names

English: Chiseled sunken disk lichen;   Contorted rimmed lichen