Phaeorrhiza nimbosa

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Physciaceae
Genus: Phaeorrhiza
Species: Phaeorrhiza nimbosa

Name

Phaeorrhiza nimbosa (Fr.) H. Mayrhofer & Poelt, 1979

Basionym

• Parmelia nimbosa Fr.

Synonyms

• Dimelaena nimbosa (Fr.) Norman
• Diploicia nimbosa (Fr.) A. Massal.
• Pachysporaria nimbosa (Fr.) M. Choisy, 1949
• Parmelia nimbosa Fr.
• Rinodina nimbosa (Fr.) Th. Fr., Lich. Scand. (Uppsala) 1: 193 (1871)
• Rinodina phaeocarpa (Sommerf.) Vain.

References

• H. Mayrhofer & Poelt, Nova Hedwigia 30: 785 (1979) [1978]

• Mayrhofer, H. and Poelt, J. (1978) Phaeorrhiza, eine neue Gattung der Physciaceae (Lichenes). - Nova Hedwigia 30: 781–798.   (RLL List # 103-62 / Rec. # 12520 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Phaeorrhiza (pp. 544-545) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Phaeorrhiza nimbosa and distribution map for North America: p. 545; color photo: p. 545, plate 655)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Phaeorrhiza H. Mayrh. & Poelt (pp. 142) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Publisher, 242 pp.   (RLL List # 180 / Rec. # 21417 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Phaeorrhiza nimbosa and color photo: p. 142)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Phaeorrhiza H. Mayrh. & Poelt (pp. 466-468) In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages.   (RLL List # 170 / Rec. # 18517 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Phaeorrhiza nimbosa: p. 466; black-and-white photo and distribution map for the American arctic: p. 467)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#17) 16 May 2011

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Phaeorrhiza nimbosa

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Phaeorrhiza nimbosa

• Dept. of Biology, University of Trieste (picture by P.L. Nimis) - Phaeorrhiza nimbosa

Vernacular names

English: Brown-fuzz lichen,   Phaeorrhiza lichen