Dirinaria confusa var. confusa

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 confusa
Varietas: Dirinaria confusa var. confusa

Name

Dirinaria confusa D.D. Awasthi, 1975 var. confusa

Substrate and ecology: On bark and wood, near the sea

World distribution: Tropical and subtropical regions of North, Central and South America with scattered collections from Asia

References

• D.D. Awasthi, Biblioth. Lichenol. 2: 56 (1975)

• 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) (Illustrations of Dirinaria confusa: figs. 34 & 35)

• Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Dirinaria (pp. 305-307) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Discussion of Dirinaria confusa and distribution map for North America: p. 306; color photo: p. 306, plate 317)

• 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 confusa: pp. 100-101; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 101)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Dirinaria confusa

Vernacular names

English: Medallion lichen,   Dirinaria lichen