Polysporina

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Polysporina
Species: P. cyclocarpa – P. dubia – P. ferruginea – P. frigida – P. gyrocarpa – P. lapponica – P. oligospora – P. pusilla – P. simplex – P. sinensis – P. subfuscescens – P. terricola – P. urceolata

Name

Polysporina Vĕzda, 1978

Type species: Polysporina simplex (Davies) Vĕzda, 1978

Life habit: Lichenized or lichenicolous.

References

• Vĕzda, Folia geobot. phytotax bohemoslov. 13: 399 (1978).
• Vezda, A. (1978) Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II. - Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 13: 397–420.
• Kantvilas, G. (1998) Notes on Polysporina Vĕzda, with a description of a new species from Tasmania. Lichenologist 30: 551–562. [1]
• Knudsen, K. (2005) Polysporina lapponica in southern California. Opuscula Philolichenum 2: 17–20. [2]
• Knudsen, K. (2007) Polysporina (pp. 276-278) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages.
• Magnusson, A.H. (1952) New crustaceous lichen species from North America. Acta Horti Gotoburg. 19: 31–49.
• Purvis, O.W., Coppins B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Nat. Hist. Mus. Pub./Br. Lich. Soc., 710 pp.
• USDA Plants Database
• Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index

Vernacular names

English: Coal-dust lichens;   Polysporina lichen