Dimelaena radiata

Dimelaena radiata

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Dimelaena
Species: Dimelaena radiata

Name

Dimelaena radiata (Tuck.) Müll. Arg., 1884

Life habit: Lichenized

Substrate and ecology: On open siliceous rock outcrops, including lava flows at very dry and/or sunny sites at coastal sites to inland ones at moderate elevation.

World distribution: Western Mediterranean Europe, northern Africa, Macaronesia, and southwestern North Ameica

Basionym

• Buellia radiata Tuck., Lich. Calif.: 25 (1866)

Synonyms

• Rinodina radiata (Tuck.) Tuck.
• Rinodina radiata subsp. lactea Hasse
• Rinodina sauvagei Werner

References

• Müll. Arg., Flora 67: 466 (1884)

• Müller, J. (1884) Lichenologische Beiträge 19. - Flora (Regensburg)\Flora 67: 268–274, 283-289, 299-306, 349-354, 396-402, 460-468.   (Mattick Rec.# 28746 - Literature on Lichens) (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Dimelaena (pp. 300-301) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (The Book) (Discussion of Dimelaena radiata: pp. 300-301; distribution map for North America: p. 300; color photo: p. 301, plate 309)

• Hale, M.E. and Cole, M. (1988) Dimelaena Norm. (pp. 197-198) In Lichens of California. University of California Press, 254 pages.   (RLL List # 138 / Rec. # 7360 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Dimelaena radiata: p. 198; black-and-white photo: p. 194, fig. 66d)

• Mayrhofer, H. and Sheard, J.W. (2004) Dimelaena (pp. 93-97) 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. # 25890 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Dimelaena radiata: pp. 95-96; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 96)

• Sheard, J.W. (1974) The genus Dimelaena in North America north of Mexico. - The Bryologist 77: 128–141.   (RLL List # 90 / Rec. # 17195 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (Illustration of Dimelaena radiata: p. 117)

• Matzer, M.; Mayrhofer, H.; Wippel, A. and Elix, J.A. (1996) Dimelaena radiata (Physciaceae, Lecanorales) and its lichenicolous fungus Endococcus buelliae (Verrucariales). - The Bryologist 99(4): 450–456.   (RLL List # xx / Rec. # 12498 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (Illustration of Dimelaena radiata: p. 451)

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Dimelaena radiata

Vernacular names

English: Silver moonglow lichen,   Mountain lichen