Placidium pseudorufescens

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placidium
Species: Placidium pseudorufescens

Name

Placidium pseudorufescens Breuss, 2002

Diagnosis: Species habitu Placidio rufescenti similis, sed squamis rhizinis substrato affixis, sporis minoribus, pycnidiis immersis et conidiis cylindricis differt.

Type: MEXICO, Baja California Sur, 33 mi SW of Loreto, Sierra de la Giganta, 25^o43' N, 111^o24' W, on soil over volcanic rock, 28.5.1974, T.H. Nash 8879 (ASU, holotype).

World and Sonoran distribution: Known on from Baja California Sur

References

• Breuss, O. (2002) Placidium (pp. 384-393) 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.# 23103] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Placidium pseudorufescens: pp. 391-392; black-and-white photo: p. 391, fig. 79)

Links

• Index Fungorum

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