Robert Lücking

Robert Lücking (born October 24, 1964, fl. 1991), German lichenologist (tropical foliicolous lichens). Ph. D. from the University of Ulm, Germany in 1995.

IPNI standard form: Lücking

Present: Adjunct Curator
Mycology / Lichenized Fungi
Department of Botany, The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605-2496

Taxon names authored

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197 taxon names authored by Robert Lücking

Publications Edit

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1990s Edit

Lücking, R. & Sérusiaux, E. 1996. Musaespora kalbii (lichenized Ascomycetes: Melanommatales), a new foliicolous lichen with a pantropical distribution. Nordic Journal of Botany 16(6): 661–668. DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.1996.tb00285.x . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Sérusiaux, E., Maia, L.C. & Pereira, E.C.G. 1998. A Revision of the Names of Foliicolous Lichenized Fungi Published by Batista and Co-Workers Between 1960 and 1975. The Lichenologist 30(2): 121–191. DOI: 10.1006/lich.1997.0117 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R. 1999. Ergänzungen und Verbesserungen zur Kenntnis der foliikolen Flechtenflora Costa Ricas. Die Familie Ectolechiaceae. [Additions and corrections to the knowledge of the foliicolous lichen flora of Costa rica. The family Ectolechiaceae.] Phyton. Annales rei Botanicae. [Horn] 39(1): 131–165. RLL List # 178 / Rec.# 10811 – Recent Literature on Lichens The Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum Reference page.

2000s Edit

Lücking, R. & Kalb, K. 2000. Foliikole Flechten aus Brasilien (vornehmlich Amazonien), inklusive einer Checkliste und Bemerkungen zu Coenogonium und Dimerella (Gyalectaceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 122(1): 1–61. RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22311 – Recent Literature on Lichens Schweizerbart Science Publishers Reference page.
Thor, G., Lücking, R. & Matsumoto, T. 2000. The foliicolous lichens of Japan. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 32(3): 1–72. RLL Suppl. Rec.# 939 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page.
Lücking, R., Sérusiaux, E. & Vězda, A. 2005. Phylogeny and systematics of the lichen family Gomphillaceae (Ostropales) inferred from cladistic analysis of phenotype data. The Lichenologist 37(2): 123–170. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282905014660 . ResearchGate . hdl: 2268/175274 . Reference page.
Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R., Aptroot, A., Sipman, H.J.M., Chaves, J.L., Umaña, L. & Lizano, D. 2006. A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica: the genus Coenogonium (Ostropales: Coenogoniaceae), with a world-wide key and checklist and a phenotype-based cladistic analysis. Fungal Diversity 23: 255–321. RLL List # 208 / Rec.# 29707 – Recent Literature on Lichens PDF Reference page.
Hibbett, D.S., Binder, M., Bischoff, J.F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P.F., Eriksson, O.E., Huhndorf, S.M., James, T., Kirk, P.M., Lücking, R., Lumbsch, H.T., Lutzoni, F., Matheny, P.B., McLaughlin, D.J., Powell, M.J., Redhead, S.A., Schoch, C.L., Spatafora, J.W., Stalpers, J.A., Vilgalys, R.J., Aime, M.C., Aptroot, A., Bauer, R., Begerow, D., Benny, G.L., Castlebury, L.A., Crous, P.W., Dai, Y.C., Gams, K.W., Geiser, D.M., Griffith, G.W., Gueidan, C., Hawksworth, D.L., Hestmark, G., Hosaka, K., Humber, R.A., Hyde, K.D., Ironside, J.E., Kõljalg, U., Kurtzman, C.P., Larsson, K.H., Lichtwardt, R.W., Longcore, J.E., Miądlikowska, J., Miller, A.N., Moncalvo, J.M., Mozley-Standridge, S., Oberwinkler, F., Parmasto, E., Reeb, V., Rogers, J.D., Roux, C., Ryvarden, L., Sampaio, J.P., Schüßler, A., Sugiyama, J., Thorn, R.G., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W.A., Walker, C., Wang, Z., Weir, A., Weiss, M., White, M.M., Winka, K., Yao, Y.J. & Zhang, N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research 111(5): 509–547. DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004 . RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Lücking, R., Kalb, K., Staiger, B. & McNeill, J. 2007. Proposal to Conserve the Name Phaeographis, with a Conserved Type, against Creographa, Ectographis, Flegographa, Hymenodecton, Platygramma, and Pyrographa (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae), along with Notes on the Names Graphina and Phaeographina. Taxon: The Journal of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy 56(4): 1296–1299. DOI: 10.2307/25065924 . JSTOR . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Miądlikowska, J., Kauff, F., Hofstetter, V., Fraker, E., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Reeb, V., Hodkinson, B.P., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Hestmark, G., Mónica Andrea García Otálora, M.A.G., Rauhut, A., Büdel, B., Scheidegger, C., Timdal, E., Stenroos, S.K., Brodo, I.M., Perlmutter, G.B., Ertz, D., Diederich, P., Lendemer, J.C., May, P.F., Schoch, C.L., Arnold, A.E., Gueidan, C., Tripp, E.A., Yahr, R., Robertson, C., Lutzoni, F.M. 2006. New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes. Mycologia 98(6): 1088–1103. RLL List # 207 / Rec.# 29011 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1080/15572536.2006.11832636 RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Lücking, R., Chaves, J.L., Sipman, H.J.M., Umaña, L. & Aptroot, A. 2008. A First Assessment of the Ticolichen Biodiversity Inventory in Costa Rica: The Genus Graphis, with Notes on the Genus Hemithecium (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Fieldiana: Botany New Series 46: 1–131. DOI: 10.3158/0015-0746(2008)46[1:AFAOTT]2.0.CO;2 . BHL Reference page.
Lücking, R. 2009. The taxonomy of the genus Graphis sensu Staiger (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). The Lichenologist 41(4): 319–362. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282909008524 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Archer, A.W. & Aptroot, A. 2009. A world-wide key to the genus Graphis (Ostropales: Graphidaceae). The Lichenologist 41(4): 363–452. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282909008305 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

2010s Edit

Crespo, A., Kauff, F., Divakar, P.K., Del Prado, R., Pérez-Ortega, S., Amo de Paz, G., Ferencova, Z., Blanco, O., Roca-Valiente, B., Núñez-Zapata, J., Cubas, P., Argüello, A., Elix, J.A., Esslinger, T.L., Hawksworth, D.L., Millanes, A.M., Molina, M.C., Wedin, M., Ahti, T.T., Aptroot, A., Barreno, E., Bungartz, F., Calvelo, S., Candan, M., Cole, M.S., Ertz, D., Goffinet, B., Lindblom, L., Lücking, R., Lutzoni, F., Mattsson, J.-E., Messuti, M.I., Miądlikowska, J., Piercey-Normore, M., Rico, V.J., Sipman, H.J.M., Schmitt, I., Spribille, T., Thell, A., Thor, G., Upreti, D.K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence. Taxon 59(6): 1735–1753. DOI: 10.1002/tax.596008 . JSTOR . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R., Sipman, H.J.M., Mangold, A., Kalb, K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. A world-wide key to the thelotremoid Graphidaceae, excluding the Ocellularia-Myriotrema-Stegobolus clade. The Lichenologist 42(2): 139–185. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282909990491 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Kalb, K., Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2011. The phylogenetic position of Malmidea, a new genus for the Lecidea piperis- and Lecanora granifera-groups (Lecanorales, Malmideaceae), inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences, with special reference to Thai species. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 106: 143–168. RLL List # 225 / Rec.# 33473 – Recent Literature on Lichens Schweizerbart Science Publishers Reference page.
Lücking, R., Seavey, F., Common, R.S., Beeching, S.Q., Breuss, O., Buck, W.R., Crane, L., Hodges, M., Hodkinson, B.P., Lay, E., Lendemer, J.C., McMullin, R.T., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Nelsen, M.P., Rivas Plata, E., Safranek, W., Sanders, W.B., Schaefer, H.P., Jr. & Seavey, J. 2011. The lichens of Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida: Proceedings from the 18th Tuckerman Workshop. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 49(4): 127–186. Florida Museum of Natural History (PDF) Reference page.
Lumbsch, H.T., Ahti, T.T., Altermann, S., Amo de Paz, G., Aptroot, A., Arup, U., Bárcenas-Peña, A., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Betancourt, L., Björk, C.R., Boonpragob, K., Brand, A.M., Bungartz, F., Caceres, M.E.S., Candan, M., Chaves, J.L., Clerc, P., Common, R.S., Coppins, B.J., Crespo, A., Dal-Forno, M., Divakar, P.K., Duya, M.V., Elix, J.A., Elvebakk, A., Fankhauser, J.D., Farkas, E., Ferraro, L.I., Fischer, E., Galloway, D.J., Gaya, E., Giralt, M., Goward, T., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Hernández, J.E., Herrera-Campos, M.A., Kalb, K., Kärnefelt, I., Kantvilas, G., Killmann, D., Kirika, P.M., Knudsen, K., Komposch, H., Kondratyuk, S.Y., Lawrey, J.D., Mangold, A., Marcelli, M.P., Mccune, B.P., Messuti, M.I., Michlig, A., Miranda-González, R., Moncada, B., Naikatini, A., Nelsen, M.P., Øvstedal, D.O., Palice, Z., Papong, K.B., Parnmen, S., Pérez-Ortega, S., Printzen, C., Rico, V.J., Plata, E.R., Robayo, J., Rosabal, D., Ruprecht, U., Allen, N.S., Sancho, L.G., De Jesus, L.S., Vieira, T.S., Schultz, M., Seaward, M.R.D., Sérusiaux, E., Schmitt, I., Sipman, H.J.M., Sohrabi, M., Søchting, U., Søgaard, M.Z., Sparrius, L.B., Spielmann, A.A., Spribille, T., Sutjaritturakan, J., Thammathaworn, A., Thell, A., Thor, G., Thüs, H., Timdal, E., Truong, C., Türk, R., Umaña-Tenorio, L., Upreti, D.K., Van den Boom, P., Rebuelta, M.V., Wedin, M., Will-Wolf, S., Wirth, V., Wirtz, N., Yahr, R., Yeshitela, K., Ziemmeck, F., Wheeler, T.B. & Lücking, R. 2011. One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. Phytotaxa 18: 1–127. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.18.1.1 . Magnolia Press (PDF) Reference page.
Cáceres, M.E.S., Rivas Plata, E. & Lücking, R. 2012. Malmographina, a new genus for Graphina malmei (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). The Lichenologist 44(1): 115–120. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282911000697 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Gaya, E., Högnabba, F., Holguin, Á., Molnar, K., Fernández-Brime, S., Stenroos, S.K., Arup, U., Søchting, U., Van den Boom, P., Lücking, R., Sipman, H.J.M. & Lutzoni, F. 2012. Implementing a cumulative supermatrix approach for a comprehensive phylogenetic study of the Teloschistales (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(2): 374–387. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.01.012 . ResearchGate . Lutzoni Lab (PDF) Reference page.
Lücking, R., Parnmen, S. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. Mangoldia, a new lichen genus in the family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 69: 1–5. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.69.1.1 Reference page.
Lücking, R., Sutjaritturakan, J. & Kalb, K. 2012. Validation of three species names and description of a new species in the genus Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). The Lichenologist 44(3): 391–394. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282911000855 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Moncada, B. & Lücking, R. 2012. Ten new species of Sticta and counting: Colombia as a hot spot for unrecognized diversification in a conspicuous macrolichen genus. Phytotaxa 74(1): 1–29. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.74.1.1 RLL List # 229 / Rec.# 34291 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page.
Parnmen, S., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. Phylogenetic Classification at Generic Level in the Absence of Distinct Phylogenetic Patterns of Phenotypical Variation: A Case Study in Graphidaceae (Ascomycota). PLoS ONE 7(12): e51392, 1–13. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051392 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. A new classification for the family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes: Ostropales). Fungal Diversity 52(1): 107–121. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-011-0135-8 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Rivas Plata, E., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2012. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Ocellularia clade (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Taxon 61(6): 1161–1179. DOI: 10.1002/tax.616001 Reference page.
Schmitt, I., Otte, J., Parnmen, S., Sadowska-Deś, A.D., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T.. 2012. A new circumscription of the genus Varicellaria (Pertusariales, Ascomycota). MycoKeys 4: 23–36. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.4.3545 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Sipman, H.J.M., Lücking, R., Aptroot, A., Chaves, J.L., Kalb, K. & Umaña-Tenorio, L. 2012. A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica and adjacent areas: the thelotremoid Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 55(1): 1–214. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.55.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.
Lücking, R. 2013. Minksia chilena (C. W. Dodge) Redón & Follmann belongs in Graphidaceae and its correct name is Carbacanthographis chilensis (Zahlbr.) Lücking. The Lichenologist 45(1): 127–129. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282912000643 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Tehler, A., Bungartz, F., Rivas Plata, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2013. Journey from the West: Did tropical Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) evolve from a saxicolous ancestor along the American Pacific coast? American Journal of Botany 100(5): 844–856. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200548 . Reference page.
Moncada, B., Lücking, R. & Betancourt-Macuase, L. 2013. Phylogeny of the Lobariaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales), with a reappraisal of the genus Lobariella. The Lichenologist 45(2): 203–263. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282912000825 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Moncada, B., Lücking, R. & Coca, L.F. 2013. Six new apotheciate species of Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) from the Colombian Andes. The Lichenologist 45(5): 635–656. RLL List # 232 / Rec.# 34997 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282913000376 Reference page.
Moncada, B., Coca, L.F. & Lücking, R. 2013. Neotropical members of Sticta (lichenized Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) forming photosymbiodemes, with the description of seven new species. The Bryologist 116(2): 169–200. RLL List # 240 / Rec.# 36479 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-116.2.169 Reference page.
Rivas Plata, E., Parnmen, S., Staiger, B., Mangold, A., Frisch, A., Weerakoon, G., Hernández, J.E., Cáceres, M.E.S., Kalb, K., Sipman, H.J.M., Common, R.S., Nelsen, M.P., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of Graphidaceae (Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes, Ostropales) including 428 species. MycoKeys 6: 55–94. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.6.3482 . Reference page.
Suárez, A. & Lücking, R. 2013. Sticta viviana (lichenized Ascomycota: Peltigerales: Lobariaceae), a new species from Colombian paramos. The Lichenologist 45(2): 153–157. RLL List # 231 / Rec.# 34735 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282912000680 Reference page.
Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Lücking, R., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Mangold, A., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Papong, K.B., Van den Broeck, D., Weerakoon, G. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Revisiting the phylogeny of Ocellularieae, the second largest tribe within Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 189(1): 52–81. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.6 . PDF. Reference page.
Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Gintarasia and Xalocoa, two new genera to accommodate temperate to subtropical species in the predominantly tropical Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota). Australian Systematic Botany 26(6): 466–474. DOI: 10.1071/SB13038 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lodge, D.J., Padamsee, M., Matheny, P.B., Aime, M. C., Cantrell, S.A., Boertmann, D., Kovalenko, A., Vizzini, a., Dentinger, B.T.M., Kirk, P.M., Ainsworth, A.M., Moncalvo, J.-M., Vilgalys, R., Larsson, E., Lücking, R., Griffith, G.W., Smith, M.E., Norvell, L.L., Desjardin, D.E., Redhead, S.A., Ovrebo, C.L., Lickey, E.B., Ercole, E., Hughes, K.W., Courtecuisse, R., Young, A., Binder, M., Minnis, A.M., Lindner, D.L., Ortiz-Santana, B., Haight, J., Læssøe, T., Baroni, T.J., Geml, J. & Hattori, T. 2013 ['2014']. Molecular phylogeny, morphology, pigment chemistry and ecology in Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales). Fungal diversity 64(1): 1–99. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-013-0259-0 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lumbsch, H.T., Kraichak, E., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Aptroot, A., Caceres, M.E.S., Ertz, D., Feuerstein, S.C., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Staiger, B., Van den Broeck, D. & Lücking, R. 2014. New higher taxa in the lichen family Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) based on a three-gene skeleton phylogeny. Phytotaxa 189(1): 39–51. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.5 . ResearchGate . USDA (PDF). Reference page.
Miądlikowska, J., Kauff, F., Högnabba, F., Oliver, J.C., Molnár, K., Fraker, E., Gaya, E., Hafellner, J., Hofstetter, V., Gueidan, C., Otálora, M.A.G., Hodkinson, B.P., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Björk, C.R., Sipman, H.J.M., Burgaz, A.R., Thell, A., Passo, A., Myllys, L., Goward, T., Fernández-Brime, S., Hestmark, G., Lendemer, J.C., Lumbsch, H.T., Schmull, M., Schoch, C.L., Sérusiaux, E., Maddison, D.R., Arnold, A.E., Lutzoni, F. & Stenroos, S.K. 2014. A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 132–168. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.003 PDF. Reference page.
Moncada, B., Reidy, B. & Lücking, R. 2014. A phylogenetic revision of Hawaiian Pseudocyphellaria sensu lato (lichenized Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) reveals eight new species and a high degree of inferred endemism. The Bryologist 117(2): 119–160. RLL List # 236 / Rec.# 35738 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-117.2.119 JSTOR Reference page.
Nelsen, M.P., Lücking, R., Andrew, C.J., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Rivas Plata, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Molecular phylogeny reveals the true colours of Myeloconidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Australian systematic botany 27(1): 38–47. DOI: 10.1071/SB13040 Reference page.
Sohrabi, M., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. (eds.) 2014. One hundred and seventy-five new species of Graphidaceae. Phytotaxa 189(1): 001–347. Reference page.
Weerakoon, G., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2014. Thirteen new species of Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) from Sri Lanka. Phytotaxa 189(1): 331–347. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.24 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Ariyawansa, H.A., Hyde, K.D., Jayasiri, S.C., Buyck, B., Chethana, K.W.T., Dai, D.-Q., Dai, Y.-C., Daranagama, D.A., Jayawardena, R.S., Lücking, R., Ghobad-Nejhad, M., Niskanen, T., Thambugala, K.M., Voigt, K., Zhao, R.-L., Li, G.-J., Doilom, M., Boonmee, S., Yang, Z.-L., Cai, Q., Cui, Y.-Y., Bahkali, A.H.A., Chen, J., Cui, B.-K., Chen, J.-J., Dayarathne, M.C., Dissanayake, A.J., Ekanayaka, A.H., Hashimoto, A., Hongsanan, S., Jones, E.B.G., Larsson, E., Li, W.-J., Li, Q.-R., Liu, J.-K., Luo, Z.-L., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Mapook, A., McKenzie, E.H.C., Norphanphoun, C., Konta, S., Pang, K.L., Perera, R.H., Phookamsak, R., Phukhamsakda, C., Pinruan, U., Randrianjohany, É., Singtripop, C., Tanaka, K., Tian, C.-M., Tibpromma, S., Abdel-Wahab, M.A., Wanasinghe, D.N., Wijayawardene, N.N., Zhang, J.-F., Zhang, H., Abdel-Aziz, F.A., Wedin, M., Westberg, M., Ammirati, J.F., Bulgakov, T.S., Lima, D.X., Callaghan, T.M., Callac, P., Chang, Cheng-Hao, Coca, L.F., Dal-Forno, M., Dollhofer, V., Fliegerová, K., Greiner, K., Griffith, G.W., Ho, H.-M., Hofstetter, V., Jeewon, R., Kang, J.-C., Wen, T.-C., Kirk, P.M., Kytövuori, I., Lawrey, J.D., Xing, J., Li, H., Liu, Z.-Y., Liu, X.-Z., Liimatainen, K., Lumbsch, H.T., Matsumura, M., Moncada, B., Nuankaew, S., Parnmen, S., Santiago, A.L.C.M.A., Sommai, S., Song, Yu, de Souza, C.A.F., de Souza-Motta, C.M., Su, H.-Y., Suetrong, S., Wang, Y., Wei, S.-F., Wen, T.-C., Yuan, H.-S., Zhou, L.-W., Réblová, M., Fournier, J., Camporesi, E., Luangsa-ard, J.J., Tasanathai, K., Khonsanit, A., Thanakitpipattana, D., Somrithipol, S., Diederich, P., Millanes, A.M., Common, R.S., Stadler, M., Yan, J.-Y., Li, X.-H., Lee, H.-W., Nguyen, T.T.T., Lee, H.-B., Battistin, E., Marsico, O., Vizzini, A., Vila, J., Ercole, E., Eberhardt, U., Simonini, G., Wen, H.-A. & Chen, X.-H. 2015. Fungal diversity notes 111–252: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75(1): 27–274. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-015-0346-5 ResearchGate Reference page.
Lücking, R., Mangold, A., Rivas Plata, E., Parnmen, S., Kraichak, E. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2015. Morphology-based phylogenetic binning to assess a taxonomic challenge: a case study in Graphidaceae (Ascomycota) requires a new generic name for the widespread Leptotrema wightii. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179(3): 436–443. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12327 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Moncada, B. & Lücking, R. 2015. Correction: Valid publications of seven combinations invalidly published in The Bryologist 117: 119–160. The Bryologist 118(1): 122. RLL Suppl. Rec.# 915 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-118.1.122 Reference page.
Moncada, B., Suárez, A. & Lücking, R. 2015. Nueve especies nuevas del género Sticta (Ascomycota liquenizados: Lobariaceae) del morfotipo fuliginosa sensu lato de Colombia. (Nine new species of the genus Sticta (Ascomycota liquenizados: Lobariaceae) of the fuliginosa sensu lato morphodeme from Colombia.) Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 39(150): 50–66. RLL List # 243 / Rec.# 37687 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.18257/raccefyn.110 Reference page.
Aptroot, A. & Lücking, R. 2016. A revisionary synopsis of the Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Trypetheliales). The Lichenologist 48(6): 763–982. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000487 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Kalb, J., Polyiam, W., Rivas Plata, E., Bawingan, P.A., Kalb, K. & Lücking, R. 2016. ‘Missing links’ alive? Novel taxa represent morphological transitions between distinctive phenotypes among extant Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales). Phytotaxa 268(2): 110–122. SLU Reference page.
Lücking, R., Hodkinson, B.P. & Leavitt, S.D. 2016. The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota — Approaching one thousand genera. The Bryologist 119(4): 361–416. [RLL List # 245 / Rec.# 38474.] DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361
Lücking, R., Hodkinson, B.P. & Leavitt, S.D. 2017 [2016]. The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – Approaching one thousand genera. The Bryologist 119(4): 361–416. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361 . ResearchGate . RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Lücking, R., Gutiérrez, M.C. & Moncada, B. 2016. Neosergipea, a new name for the lichen fungus Sergipea, with an updated phylogeny and notes on the genus Dichosporidium (lichenized Ascomycota: Arthoniales: Roccellaceae). The Lichenologist 48(4): 269–273. RLL List # 244 / Rec.# 37835 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000207 Reference page.
Lücking, R., Nelsen, M.P., Aptroot, A., Barillas de Klee, R., Bawingan, P.A., Benatti, M.N., Nguyen, Q.B., Bungartz, F., Cáceres, M.E.S., Canêz, L.S., Chaves, J.L., Ertz, D., Esquivel, R.E., Ferraro, L.I., Grijalva, A., Gueidan, C., Hernández, J.E., Knight, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Marcelli, M.P., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Moncada, B., Morales, E.A., Naksuwankul, K., Orozco, T., Parnmen, S., Rivas Plata, E., Salazar-Allen, N., Spielmann, A.A. & Ventura, N.E. 2016. A phylogenetic framework for reassessing generic concepts and species delimitation in the lichenized family Trypetheliaceae (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes). The Lichenologist 48(6): 739–762. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000505 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Nelsen, M.P., Aptroot, A., Benatti, M.N., Nguyen, Q.B., Gueidan, C., Gutiérrez, M.C., Jungbluth, P., Lumbsch, H.T., Marcelli, M.P., Moncada, B., Naksuwankul, K., Orozco, T., Salazar-Allen, N. & Upreti, D.K. 2016. A pot-pourri of new species of Trypetheliaceae resulting from molecular phylogenetic studies. The Lichenologist 48(6): 639–660. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282916000475 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Mangold, A. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2016. A worldwide key to species of the genera Myriotrema and Glaucotrema (lichenized Ascomycota: Graphidaceae), with a nomenclatural checklist of species published in Myriotrema. Herzogia 29(2): 493–513. DOI: 10.13158/heia.29.2.2016.493 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Buaruang, K., Boonpragob, K., Mongkolsuk, P., Sangvichien, E., Polyiam, W., Rangsiruji, A., Saipunkaew, W., Naksuwankul, K., Kalb, J., Parnmen, S., Kraichak, E., Phraphuchamnong, P., Meesim, S., Luangsuphabool, T., Nirongbut, P., Poengsungnoen, V., Duangphui, N., Sodamuk, M., Phokaeo, S., Molsil, M., Aptroot, A., Kalb, K., Lücking, R. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2017. A new checklist of lichenized fungi occurring in Thailand. MycoKeys 23: 1–91. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.23.12666 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Cáceres, M.E.S., Aptroot, A., Mendonça, C.O., Santos, L.A. & Lücking, R. 2017. Sprucidea, a further new genus of rain forest lichens in the family Malmideaceae (Ascomycota). The Bryologist 120(2): 202–211. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.2.202 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Jia, Z.-F. & Lücking, R. 2017. Resolving the genus Phaeographina Müll. Arg. in China. MycoKeys 21: 13–32. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.21.11986 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Jia, Z.-F. & Lücking, R. 2017. Resolving the species of the lichen genus Graphina Müll. Arg. in China, with some new combinations. MycoKeys 25: 13–29. DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.25.13154 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Moncada, B. & Smith, C.W. 2017. The genus Lobariella (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) in Hawaii: late colonization, high inferred endemism and three new species resulting from “micro-radiation”. The Lichenologist 49(6): 673–691. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282917000470 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Moncada, B., McCune, B.P., Farkas, E., Goffinet, B., Parker, D., Chaves, J.L., Lőkös, L., Nelson, P.R., Spribille, T., Stenroos, S.K., Wheeler, T.B., Yánez-Ayabaca, A., Dillman, K., Gockman, O.T., Goward, T., Hollinger, J., Tripp, E.A., Villella, J., Álvaro-Alba, W.R., Arango, C.J., Cáceres, M.E.S., Coca, L.F., Printzen, C., Rodríguez, C., Scharnagl, K., Rozzi, R., Soto-Medina, E. & Yakovchenko, L.S. 2017. Pseudocyphellaria crocata (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) in the Americas is revealed to be thirteen species, and none of them is P. crocata. The Bryologist 120(4): 441–500. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.4.14 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R., Hodkinson, B.P. & Leavitt, S.D. 2017. Corrections and amendments to the 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. The Bryologist 120(1): 58–69. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.1.058 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Medeiros, I.D., Kraichak, E., Lücking, R., Mangold, A. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2017. Assembling a Taxonomic Monograph of Tribe Wirthiotremateae (Lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 9: 1–31. DOI: 10.3158/2158-5520-16.9.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Wijayawardene, N.N., Hyde, K.D., Rajeshkumar, K.C., Hawksworth, D.L., Madrid, H., Kirk, P.M., Braun, U., Singh, R.V., Crous, P.W., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Kurtzman, C.P., Yurkov, A.M., Haelewaters, D., Aptroot, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Timdal, E., Ertz, D., Etayo, J., Phillips, A.J.L., Groenewald, J.Z., Papizadeh, M., Selbmann, L., Dayarathne, M.C., Weerakoon, G., Jones, E.B.G., Suetrong, S., Tian, Q., Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F., Bahkali, A.H., Pang, K.L., Tanaka, K., Dai, D.Q., Sakayaroj, J., Hujslová, M., Lombard, L., Shenoy, B.D., Suija, A., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Thambugala, K.M., Wanasinghe, D.N., Sharma, B.O., Gaikwad, S., Pandit, G., Zucconi, L., Onofri, S., Egidi, E., Raja, H.A., Kodsueb, R., Caceres, M.E.S., Pérez-Ortega, S., Fiuza, P.O., Monteiro, J.S., Vasilyeva, L.N., Shivas, R.G., Prieto, M., Wedin, M., Olariaga, I., Lateef, A.A., Agrawal, Y., Fazeli, S.A.S., Amoozegar, M.A., Zhao, G.Z., Pfliegler, W.P., Sharma, G., Oset, M., Abdel-Wahab, M.A., Takamatsu, S., Bensch, K., de Silva, N.I., De Kesel, A., Karunarathna, A., Boonmee, S., Pfister, D.H., Lu, Y.Z., Luo, Z.L., Boonyuen, N., Daranagama, D.A., Senanayake, I.C., Jayasiri, S.C., Samarakoon, M.C., Zeng, X.Y., Doilom, M., Quijada, L., Rampadarath, S., Heredia, G., Dissanayake, A.J., Jayawardana, R.S., Perera, R.H., Tang, L.Z., Phukhamsakda, C., Hernández-Restrepo, M., Ma, X., Tibpromma, S., Gusmao, L.F.P., Weerahewa, D., Karunarathna, S.C. 2017. Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86(1): 1–594. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-017-0386-0 RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Dal Forno, M., Moncada, B. & Lücking, R. 2018. Sticta aongstroemii, a newly recognized species in the S. damicornis morphodeme (Lobariaceae) potentially endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The Lichenologist 50(6): 691–696. RLL List # 256 / Rec.# 40897 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282918000403 Reference page.
Joshi, S., Upreti, D.K., Divakar, P.K., Lumbsch, H.T. & Lücking, R. 2018. A re-evaluation of thelotremoid Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota: Ostropales) in India. The Lichenologist 50(6): 627–678. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282918000439 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Kalb, J., Lücking, R. & Kalb, K. 2018. The lichen genera Allographa and Graphis (Ascomycota: Ostropales, Graphidaceae) in Thailand – eleven new species, forty-seven new records and a key to all one hundred and fifteen species so far recorded for the country. Phytotaxa 377(1): 1–83. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.377.1.1 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lücking, R. & Kalb, K. 2018. Formal instatement of Allographa (Graphidaceae): how to deal with a hyperdiverse genus complex with cryptic differentiation and paucity of molecular data. Herzogia 31(1, Teil 2): 535–561. DOI: 10.13158/heia.31.1.2018.535 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Luch, R.M. & Lücking, R. 2018. The genus Halegrapha new to Hawaii, with the new and potentially endemic species H. paulseniana and an updated checklist of Hawaiian lirellate Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Ostropales). Willdenowia 48(3): 415–423. RLL List # 256 / Rec.# 40802 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.3372/wi.48.48311 Reference page.
Moncada, B., Mercado-Díaz, J.A. & Lücking, R. 2018. The identity of Sticta damicornis (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae): a presumably widespread taxon is a Caribbean endemic. The Lichenologist 50(5): 591–597. RLL List # 255 / Rec.# 40702 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0024282918000373 Reference page.
Ranft, H., Moncada, B., de Lange, P.J., Lumbsch, H.T. & Lücking, R. 2018. The Sticta filix morphodeme (Ascomycota: Lobariaceae) in New Zealand with the newly recognized species S. dendroides and S. menziesii: indicators of forest health in a threatened island biota ? The Lichenologist 50(2): 185–210. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282917000706 . Reference page.
Hyde, K.D., Tennakoon, D.S., Jeewon, R., Bhat, D.J., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N., Rossi, W., Leonardi, M., Lee, H.-B., Mun, H.-Y., Houbraken, J., Thi Thuong Thuong Nguyen, T.T.T., Jeon, S.-J., Frisvad, J.C., Wanasinghe, D.N., Lücking, R., Aptroot, A., Cáceres, M.E.S., Karunarathna, S.C., Hongsanan, S., Phookamsak, R., de Silva, N.I., Thambugala, K.M., Jayawardena, R.S., Senanayake, I.C., Boonmee, S., Chen, J., Luo, Z.-L., Phukhamsakda, C., Pereira, O.L., Abreu, V.P., Rosado, A.W.C., Buyck, B., Randrianjohany, É., Hofstetter, V., Gibertoni, T.B., Soares, A.M.S., Plautz, H.L., Jr., Sotão, H.M.P., Xavier, W.K.S., Bezerra, J.D.P., Oliveira, T.G.L., Souza-Motta, C.M., Magalhães, O.M.C., Bundhun, D., Harishchandra, D., Manawasinghe, I.S., Dong, W., Zhang, S.-N., Bao, D.-F., Samarakoon, M.C., Pem, D., Karunarathna, A., Lin, C.-G. et al. 2019. Fungal diversity notes 1036–1150: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 96: 1–242. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-019-00429-2 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Santos, L.A., Aptroot, A., Lücking, R. & Cáceres, M.E.S. 2019. High diversification in the Neoprotoparmelia multifera complex (Ascomycota, Parmeliaceae) in northeast Brazil revealed by DNA barcoding and phenotypical characters. The Bryologist 122(4): 539–552. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-122.4.539 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

2020s Edit

Wilk, K., Pabijan, M., Saługa, M., Gaya, E. & Lücking, R. 2021. Phylogenetic revision of South American Teloschistaceae (lichenized Ascomycota, Teloschistales) reveals three new genera and species. Mycologia 113(2): 278–299. DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1830672 . ResearchGate . Reference page.