Dirinaria confluens

Dirinaria confluens

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Dirinaria
Species: Dirinaria confluens

Name

Dirinaria confluens (Fr.) D.D.Awasthi, Biblioth. Lichenol. 2: 28 (1975)

Substrate and ecology: On bark, wood and rocks, from sea level to the edges of montane rain forests.

World distribution: In all tropical regions of both hemispheres with a few collections from subtropical parts of Japan

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Parmelia confluens Fr., Syst. Orb. Veget. 1: 284 (1825)

References

• Awasthi, D.D. 1975. A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Dirinaria. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 2, J. Cramer, Lehre. 108 pp.   (RLL List # 93-3 / Rec. # 1294 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Reference page. : (Illustrations of Dirinaria confluens: figs. 20, 27 & 29)

• Kalb, K. (2004) Dirinaria (pp. 98-103) 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. (Discussion of Dirinaria confluens and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 100; black-and-white photo: p. 100, fig. 8)

• Thomson, J.W. (1963) The Lichen Genus Physcia in North America. - Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia, Heft 7. J. Cramer. viii + 172 pp.   (RLL List # 46 / Rec. # 18472 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Dirinaria confluens: plate 43 [as Physcia aegialita])

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

• Elix (2009) Australian lichens - Discussion of Dirinaria confluens

• USDA Plants Database

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

• LIAS

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Dirinaria confluens

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Dirinaria confluens

Vernacular names

English: Dirinaria lichen

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