Lepraria alpina

Taxonavigation

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

Lepraria alpina (B.de Lesd.) Tretiach & Baruffo in Baruffo et al., Nova Hedwigia 83(3–4): 390 (2006). [MycoBank #501303]

Substrate and ecology: On granite and other acid rocks, overgrowing mosses and other lichens.

Crocynia alpina B.de Lesd., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 61(1): 85 (1914). [MycoBank #383785]

Baruffo, L., Zedda, L., Elix, J.A. & Tretiach, M. 2006. A revision of the lichen genus Lepraria s.lat. in Italy. Nova Hedwigia 83(3–4): 387–429. RLL (PDF) Reference page.

Flakuks, A. and Kukwa, M. (2007) New species and records of Lepraria (Stereocaulaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) from South America. The Lichenologist 39: 463–474. [1]
Flakus, A.; Elix, J.A.; Rodriguez, P. and Kukwa, M. (2011). New species and records of Lepraria ( Stereocaulaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) from South America. The Lichenologist 43(1): 57–66. (doi:10.1017/S0024282910000502) (L. alpina new to Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela)
Knudsen, K. and Elix, J.A. (2007) Lepraria (pp. 384-388) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages. (Description of L. alpina: pp. 386-387; distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 386)
McCune, B. and Rosentreter, R. (2007) Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin. Monographs in North American Lichenology 1: 1–105. (Illustration of L. alpina: p. 25)