Physcia phaea

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Physciaceae
Genus: Physcia
Species: Physcia phaea

Name

Physcia phaea (Tuck.) J.W. Thomson 1963

Substrate and ecology (Sonoran region:) Growing on rocks in open situations

World distribution: Known from more northern parts of North America, Europe and Sonoran region

Basionym: Parmelia phaea Tuck., in Darlington, Flora Cestrica, 3^rd

Synonyms

• Parmelia phaea Tuck.,: 440 (1853)
• Physcia aipolia subsp. phaea (Tuck.) Clauzade & Cl. Roux, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, Nouv. sér., num. spec. 7: 827 (1985)
• Physcia melops Nyl.
• Physcia cascadensis H. Magn., 1932   (Source: Moberg 1997)

References

• J.W. Thomson, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 7: 54 (1963)

• Thomson, J.W. (1963) The Lichen Genus Physcia in North America. - Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia, Heft 7 . J. Cramer.. viii + 172 pp.   (RLL List # 46 / Rec. # 18472 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Physcia (pp. 546-560) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of Physcia phaea and distribution map for North America: p. 556; color photo: p. 557, plate 669)

• Flenniken, D. (1999) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux (pp. 174-180) In The Macrolichens In West Virginia, 231 pages, 26 plates. (Published by D. Flenniken, 2273 Blachleyville Rd, Wooster, Ohio 44691) (Description of Physcia phaea: p. 178; color photo: plate 20, A)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Physcia (Schreb.) Michx., 1803 (pp. 388-399) In, The Macrolichens of New England. - Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden No. 96. New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, New York. 584 pp. (Description of Physcia phaea: pp. 396-397; color photo: p. 396, fig. 247)

• Moberg, R. (1977) The lichen genus Physcia and allied genera in Fennoscandia. - Symbol. Bot. Upsal. 22: 1–108.   (RLL List # 98 / Rec. # 12901 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Physcia phaea: p. 66)

• Moberg, R. (1997) The lichen genus Physcia in the Sonoran Desert and adjacent regions. -In: Tibell, L. and Hedberg, I. (eds.): Lichen Studies Dedicated to Rolf Santesson. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, pp. 163-186.   (RLL List # 170 / Rec. # 12933 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Moberg, R. (2002) Physcia (pp. 358-373) In: Nash III, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages. (Description of Physcia phaea and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 368)

• Thomson, J.W. (1984) Physcia (Schreb.) Michx. (pp. 340-357). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages.   (RLL List # 124-96 / Rec. # 18494 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia phaea: pp. 355-356; distribution map for the American arctic: p. 356)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux (pp. 182-186) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.   (RLL List # 190 / Rec. # 24161 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia phaea: p. 185)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Physcia phaea

• A Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Physcia phaea

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

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Physcia phaea

Vernacular names

English: Black-eyed rock rosette lichen,   Black-eyed rosette lichen,   Rosette lichen