Gyalecta jenensis var. jenensis

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Gyalectaceae
Genus: Gyalecta
Species: Gyalecta jenensis
Varietas: Gyalecta jenensis var. jenensis

Name

Gyalecta jenensis (Batsch) Zahlbr., 1924 var. jenensis

Substrate and ecology: Usually on damp, often sheltered and shaded, calcareous rock or mortar, sometimes spreading to adjacent soil and mosses

World distribution: Circumboreal-temperate, Northern Hemisphere; Europe, North Africa; North America (mostly eastern, but also reported from British Columbia and California)

Basionym

• Peziza jenensis Batsch, Elench. Fungor., Contin Prima, 1786, p.219, fig.53.

Synonymy

• Gyalecta cupularis (Hedw.) Schaer., 1826   (Source: Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories)

References

Primary references

• Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 2: 720 (1924)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200320031006/http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/02848/0720.htm
  • Gyalecta jenensis var. jenensis A. Zahlbr.

Additional references

• Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Gyalecta (p. 329) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22465] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis and distribution map for North America: p. 329; color photo: p. 329, plate 350)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Gyalecta (pp. 164-165) 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)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis and map: p. 165)

• James, P.W. and Woods, R.G. (1992) Gyalecta Ach. (1808) (pp. 259-262) 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)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis: p. 261)

• Ryan, B.D. and Nimis (2004) Gyalecta (pp. 122-125) 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.# 25902] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis: pp. 124-125)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Gyalecta Ach. (pp. 237-242) In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages.   **[RLL List # 170 / Rec.# 18517] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis: p. 240; distribution map for the American arctic: p. 241)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Gyalecta Ach. (pp. 407-413) - 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)** (Discussion of Gyalecta jenensis: pp. 410 & 412; color photo: p. 408)

Links

• LIAS

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Australian lichens (Photo by Bill Malcolm) - Gyalecta jenensis

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Gyalecta jenensis

• Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria - Gyalecta jenensis

• Lichen Gallery of Leif and Anita Stridvall - Gyalecta jenensis

• British Lichens (photo by M. Sutclife) - Gyalecta jenensis

Vernacular names

English: Rock dimple lichen,   Dimple lichen