Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Caliciales 

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Culbersonia
Species: C. americana – C. nubila

Name edit

Culbersonia Essl., Bryologist 103(4): 771 (2000). [MycoBank #28479]

Type species: Culbersonia americana Essl., Bryologist 103(4): 771 (2000). [MycoBank #474570]
Life habit: Lichenized
Etymology: The genus was named to honor the American lichenologists, Chicita Frances Culberson and William Louis Culberson

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  • Esslinger, T. L. (2002) Culbersonia (pp. 164-165) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages.   (RLL List # 187 / Rec. # 23046 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

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