Coenogonium missouriense

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Coenogoniaceae
Genus: Coenogonium
Species: Coenogonium missouriense

Name

Coenogonium missouriense Jos.S. Davis, 1994

Diagnosis: Thallus ramosus, 7-13 µm latus, cellularum viridium a filimentis discretis vel moniliformibus vel cylindraceis; alga ad Physolinum monilia (De Wildem.) Printz pertinans; cellulae algarum arcte tectae, a cellulis fungalibus hyalinis, latericonjunctis complanatis, in strato uno. Sporae cum spinis simplices, hyalinae, ovatae, ascosporae existimatae.

Type: U.S.A. Missouri. Pulasky Co.: Near the town of Newburg, on moist back wall of Onyx Cave, J.S. Davis & D.G. Rands, June 1986. Holotype, FLAS.

References

• Davis, J.S. (1994) Coenogonium missouriense, a new lichen species from Missouri. - The Bryologist 97(2): 186–189.   **[RLL List # 156 / Rec.# 4097] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Coenogonium missouriense: p. 187, fig.1, filaments on dolomite; fig. 2, detail of filament; fig. 3, ascospores)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

External links

• Image: The Onyx Cave is the only known home of the Missouri Cave Lichen, Coenogonium missouriense.

Vernacular names

English: Missouri cave lichen