Leptogium cyanescens

Leptogium cyanescens

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Collemataceae
Genus: Leptogium
Species: Leptogium cyanescens

Name

Leptogium cyanescens (Rabenh.) Körb., 1855

Basionym

• Lichen cyanescens Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 1: 17 (1794)

Homotypic synonyms

• Lichen cyanescens Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 1: 17 (1794)
• Collema cyanescens (Pers.) Rabenh., Deutschl. Krypt.-Fl. (Leipzig) 2: 50 (1845)
• Leptogium cyanescens (Pers.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 420 (1855)
• Leptogium cyanescens var. cyanescens (Pers.) Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 420 (1855)

• Leptogium caesium (Ach.) Vainio
• Leptogium tremelloides auct.

• Parmelia cyanescens (Pers.) Ach., Method. Lich.: 163 (1803)
• Verrucaria cyanescens (Pers.) Hoffm., Deutschl. Fl., Zweiter Theil (Erlangen): 189 (1796)

References

• Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 420 (1855)

• Koerber, G.W. (1855) Systema Lichenum Germaniae (I-XXXIV). Die Flechten Deutschlands mikroscopisch geprüft, kritisch gesichtet, charakteristisch beschrieben und systematisch geordnet. - Breslau.   (Mattick Rec.# 23705 - Literature on Lichens) (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Leptogium (pp. 401-411) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Leptogium cyanescens: p. 404)

• Jørgensen, P.M. and Nash III, T.H. (2004) Leptogium (pages 330-350).In T.H. Nash III,T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P; Gries, C. & Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, 742 pages.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25922 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Leptogium cyanescens, p. 338-339)

• Sierk, H.A. (1964) The Genus Leptogium in North America North of Mexico. The Bryologist 67(3): 245–317.   (RLL List # 52 / Rec. # 17292 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (Leptogium cyanescens: pp. 300-301; 314)

• LIAS

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories (List L)

• Australian Biological Resources Study (Checklist of lichens) - Discussion of Leptogium cyanescens.

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#18) 13 Dec 2012

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Leptogium cyanescens

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Leptogium cyanescens

• Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Leptogium cyanescens

• The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Leptogium cyanescens

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Leptogium cyanescens

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Leptogium cyanescens

Vernacular names

English: Blue jellyskin, Blue oilskin:   Skin lichen