Graphis elegans

Graphis elegans

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Graphidaceae
Subfamilia: Graphidoideae
Genus: Graphis
Species: Graphis elegans

Name

Graphis elegans (Borrer ex Sm.) Ach., 1814

Basionym

• Opegrapha elegans Sm., 1808

Substratum: On bark.

Synonyms

• Aulacographa elegans Leight., 1854
• Graphis elegans f. coacervata Leight., 1879
• Graphis elegans f. parallela (Schaer.) Nyl., 1858
• Graphis elegans f. simplicior Cromb. ex W.Johnson
• Graphis elegans f. stellata Leight., 1879
• Graphis petrina Nyl., 1876
• Graphis ramificans Nyl., 1876
• Opegrapha elegans Borrer ex Sm., 1807
• Opegrapha elegans var. parallela Schaer., 1850
• Opegrapha sulcata Moug. & Nestl. ex DC.
• Phaeographis ramificans (Nyl.) Lettau, 1912

Primary references

• Ach. Syn. Meth. Lich. : 85 (1814)

• Acharius, E. (1814) Synopsis methodica lichenum, sistens omnes hujus ordinis naturalis detectas plantas, quas, secundum genera, species et varietates disposuit, characteribus et differentiis emendatis definivit, nec non synonymis et observationibus selectis illustravit auctor. - Lund. 392 pp.   (Publication)

References

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Graphis (pp. 163-164) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description, distribution map, and color photo of Graphis elegans: p. 163; diagram of lirella: p. 164)

• Orange, A. and James P.W. (1992) Graphis (pp. 258-259) 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. (Description of Graphis elegans: pp. 258-259)

• Staiger, B. (2002) Die Flechtenfamilie Graphidaceae: Studien in Richtung einer natürlicheren Gliederung. Bibl. Lichenol. 85: 1–526. (Illustrations of Graphis elegans: pp. 232, 233, and 499)

• Staiger, B. and Kalb, K. (2004) Graphis (pp. 118-122) 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. (Description of Graphis elegans: pp. 119-120)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Graphis (pp. 406-407 - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of Graphis elegans: p. 407)

• Wirth, M. and Hale, M.E. (1978) Morden-Smithsonian Expedition to Dominica: The lichens (Graphidaceae). Smithson. Contr. Bot. 40: 1–64. (Illustration of Graphis elegans: p. 14)

Links

• LIAS

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#14) 8 Oct 2008

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories - G List

• Archer, Alan W. (2009) (Australian lichens) - Discussion of Graphis elegans

• Graphis elegans in Index Fungorum.

• Graphis elegans in MycoBank.

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Graphis elegans

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Graphis elegans

• Australian lichens (photo by Alan Archer) - Graphis elegans

Vernacular names

English: Elegant script lichen