Placidiopsis cinerascens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Eurotiomycetes Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placidiopsis
Species: Placidiopsis cinerascens

Name

Placidiopsis cinerascens (Nyl.) Breuss, 1985

Substrate and ecology: On ± calciferous soil on open places; California specimens are from serpentine soil

World distribution: Mediterranean Europe and Morocco, central Asia, SW North America and Mexico in mediterranean climates

Basionym

• Endocarpon cinerascens Nyl., 1853

References

• Breuss, Pl. Syst. Evol. 148 (3-4): 315 (1985)

• Breuss, O. (1985) On the lichen genera Placocarpus and Placidiopsis (Verrucariaceae). - Plant Systematics and Evolution 148: 313–315. (Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Breuss, O. (2002) Placidiopsis (pp. 383-384) 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. (Discussion of Placidiopsis cinerascens: pp. 383-384; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 384)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#16) 18 June 2010.

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Placidiopsis cinerascens

• lichens of France - Placidiopsis cinerascens