Cyphelium inquinans

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Cyphelium
Species: Cyphelium inquinans

Name

Cyphelium inquinans (Sm.) Trevis., 1862

Substrate and ecology: Usually on wood and dead, dry and decorticated twigs of living Larix, Picea and Pinus, also on rough acidic bark of old trunks of Larix, Picea, Abies, Quercus, and Betula

World distribution: Europe, western North America, South America, and Australasia

Sonoran distribution: Southern California at low to high elevations

Basionym

Lichen inquinans Sm. in Smith & Sowerby, Engl. Bot. 12: 810 (1801)

Synonyms

Cyphelium ventricosulum (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., 1903 (Source: North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#15) 27 Aug 2009)

Acolium inquinans (Sm.) A. Massal., 1853
Acolium tympanellum (Ach.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 482 (1821)
Calicium inquinans (Sm.) Schaer., 1821
Calicium tympanellum Ach., Method. Lich.: 89 (1803)
Cyphelium lecanorinum (F.Wilson) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univ. 1: 667 (1922)
Cyphelium tympanellum (Ach.) Ach., K. Vetensk-Acad. Nya Handl.: 264 (1815)
Lecidea tympanella (Ach.) Link, 1833
Lichen inquinans Sm., Engl. Bot. 12: tab. 810 (1801)
Trachylia inquinans (Sm.) Rabenh., 1845
Trachylia lecanorina F. Wilson, Victorian Naturalist 6: 66 (1889)
Trachylia tympanella (Ach.) Fr., Corpus Fl. Prov. Suec. 1: 282 (1835)

References

Trevis., Flora 45: 3 (1862)

Trevisan,V. (1862) Summa lichenum coniocarporum. - Flora (Regensburg)\Flora 1862: 3–7. (Mattick Rec.# 33860 - Literature on Lichens) (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Cyphelium (p. 291-293) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Cyphelium inquinans, and distribution map for North America: p. 292; color photo: p. 292, plate 298)

Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Cyphelium (p. 145) 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, distribution map, color photo of Cyphelium inquinans: p. 145)

Purvis, O.W. (1992) Cyphelium Ach., 1815 (pp. 227-229) 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. (RLL List # 151 / Rec. # 15105 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Cyphelium inquinans: p. 228)

Thomson, J.W. (1997) Cyphelium Ach. (pp. 211-215) In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (RLL List # 170 / Rec. # 18517 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Cyphelium inquinans: p. 211; black-and-white photo and distribution map for the American arctic: p. 212)

Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Cyphelium (pp. 82-88) 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. (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25888 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Cyphelium inquinans: pp. 84-85)

Weber, W.A. (1967) A synopsis of the North American species of Cyphelium. - The Bryologist 70: 197–203. (RLL List # 65 / Rec. # 20017 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (Discussion of Cyphelium inquinans: p. 201)

Wirth, V. (1995) Cyphelium Ach. (pp. 364-367) - 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 Cyphelium inquinans: p. 366)

LIAS

USDA Plants Database

North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#17) 16 May 2011

Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

Index Fungorum

MycoBank

Links to photos

Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Cyphelium inquinans

The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Cyphelium inquinans

Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Cyphelium inquinans

British Lichens, Picture Index - Cyphelium inquinans

Vernacular names

English: Cupped soot lichen, Soot lichen