Physconia muscigena

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Physciaceae
Genus: Physconia
Species: Physconia muscigena

Name

Physconia muscigena (Ach.) Poelt, 1965

Substrate and ecology (Sonoran region:) On mosses, Selaginella, or detritus, usually over soil or rock

Basionym

• Parmelia muscigena Ach., Lichenographa Universalis 472 (1810)

Synonyms

• Parmelia muscigena Ach., Lich. univ. (1810)
• Physcia muscigena (Ach.) Nyl., Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux 21: 308 (1856)
• Physcia pulverulenta var. muscigena (Ach.) Nyl.
• Xanthoria muscigena (Ach.) Horw., 1912

References

• Poelt, Nova Hedwigia 9: 30 (1965)

• Poelt, J. (1965) Zur Systematik der Flechtenfamilie Physciaceae. - Nova Hedwigia 9 (1-4): 21–32.   (RLL List # 54 / Rec. # 14831 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Physconia (pp. 560-566) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of Physconia muscigena and distribution map for North America: p. 565; color photo: p. 565, plate 681)

• Chen, J.-B. and Hu, G.-R. (2003) The lichen family Physciaceae (Ascomycota) in China V. The genus Physconia. - Mycotaxon 86: 185–194.   (RLL List # 192 / Rec. # 24695 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Web site) (Description of Physconia muscigena: p. 192; distribution map for China: p. 191, fig. 4)

• Esslinger, T. L. (2002) Physconia (pp. 373-383) 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.   (RLL List # 187 / Rec. # 23101 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia muscigena: pp. 381-382; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 382)
• McCune, B. and Geiser, L. (2009) Physconia (pp. 274-277) Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. (Second Edition) Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 464 pp.   (RLL List # 216 / Rec. # 31233 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia muscigena and color photo: p. 276)

• 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 Physconia muscigena: p. 88)
• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Physconia Poelt (pp. 150-151) 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 Physconia muscigena: pp. 150-151; color photo: p. 150)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Physconia Poelt (pp. 357-361). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.   (RLL List # 190 / Rec. # 24161 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia muscigena: p. 361; sketch and distribution map for the American arctic: p. 360)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Physconia Poelt (pp. 736-741) - Teil 2 - In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German.   (RLL List # 159 / Rec. # 20405 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia muscigena: p. 741; color photo: p. 739)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Physconia muscigena

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Physconia muscigena

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

Vernacular names

English: Ground frost lichen,   Frosted lichen