Physconia perisidiosa

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 perisidiosa

Name

Physconia perisidiosa (Erichsen) Moberg, 1977

Substrate and ecology (Sonoran region:) On bark, rock, mosses over rock

World distribution: North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America

Basionym: Physcia perisidiosa Erichsen, Verhandl. Bot. Vereins Prav. Brandenburg 72: 57 (1930)

Synonyms

• Physcia farrea sensu auct. brit.; fide Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (2002)
• Physcia grisea sensu auct. brit. p.p.; fide Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (2002)
• Physcia leucoleiptes var. perisidiosa (Erichsen) Nádv., 1947
• Physcia perisidiosa Erichsen, Verh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 72: 57 (1930)
• Physconia farrea sensu auct. brit.; fide Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (2002)

References

• Moberg, Symb. bot. upsal. 22 (no. 1): 90 (1977)

• 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)

• 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 perisidiosa and distribution map for North America: p. 565; color photo: p. 566, plate 682)

• Coppins, B.J. (1992) Physconia Poelt, 1965 (pp. 467-470) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp.   (RLL List # 151 / Rec. # 15105 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia perisidiosa: p. 472)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Physconia (pp. 306-308) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.   (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22402 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description and distribution map of Physconia perisidiosa: p. 308)

• 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. (Description of Physconia perisidiosa: pp. 382-283; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 383; black-and-white photo: p. 382, fig. 77)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Physonia Poelt, 1965 (pp. 401-405) 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.   (RLL List # 210 / Rec. # 30032 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia perisidiosa: p. 405)

• 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 perisidiosa and color photos: p. 277)

• 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 perisidiosa and color photo: p. 151)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Physconia Poelt (pp. 187-188) 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 persidiosa: p. 188)

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Physconia Poelt (pp. 302-307) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 26085 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physconia perisidiosa: p. 306; color photo: p. 307)

• 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 perisidiosa: p. 741; color photo: p. 740)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Physconia perisidiosa

• A Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Physconia perisidiosa

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

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Physconia perisidiosa

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Physconia perisidiosa

Vernacular names

English: Crescent frost lichen,   Frosted lichen
Nederlands: Duinrijpmos