Placopyrenium heppioides

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Placopyrenium
Species: Placopyrenium heppioides

Name

Placopyrenium heppioides (Zahlbr.) Breuss, 2002

World and Sonoran distribution: Southern California, known only from the type locality in the Santa Monica Mountains

Basionym

• Dermatocarpon heppioides Zahlbr., Annal. Mycol. 10: 359 (1912)

Synonymy

• Catapyrenium heppioides (Zahlbr.) J.W. Thomson, 1987

References

Primary references

• Breuss, in Nash, Ryan, Gries & Bungartz, Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region (Tempe) 1: 395 (2002)

• Breuss, O. (2002) Placopyrenium (pp. 394-397) 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.# 23104] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Placopyrenium heppioides: p. 395)

Selected reference

• Thomson, J.W. (1987) The lichen genera Catapyrenium and Placidiopsis in North America. - The Bryologist 90: 27–39.   **[RLL List # 131 / Rec.# 18497] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Illustration of Catapyrenium heppioides = Placopyrenium heppioides: p. 29)

Links

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

• Placopyrenium heppioides in Index Fungorum.

• Placopyrenium heppioides in MycoBank.