Psora crenata

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Psoraceae
Genus: Psora
Species: Psora crenata

Name

Psora crenata (Taylor) Reinke, 1895

North American distribution: U.S.A., Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah; MEXICO, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Hidalgo, Morelia, Nuevo León, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas

Basionym

• Endocarpon crenatum Taylor, Lond. J. Bot. 6: 156 (1847)   Type: South Africa

Synonyms

• Endocarpon crenatum Taylor, Lond. J. Bot. 6: 156 (1847)   Type: South Africa
• Lecidea coroniformis Krempelh., Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 18: 326, Tab. 4, Fig. 1 (1868) Type: U.S.A., "Texas", herb. Krempelhuber (holotype M)
• Psora concava B. de Lesd., Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 57: 461 (1910) Type: Mexico
• Biatora crenata (Taylor) Tuck., 1872
• Lecidea crenata (Taylor) Stizenb., 1891 [1889-90]
• Lecidea elegans (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 3: 873 (1925)
• Psora elegans Müll. Arg., Flora, Jena 64: 87 (1881)

References

Primary references

• Reinke, in Pringsheim, Jb. wiss. Bot. 28: 97 (1895)

• Reinke, J. (1895) Abhandlungen über Flechten III. Einige Voraussetzungen einer phylogenetischen Morphologie der Flechten. - Jahrbuch für wissenschaftliche Botanik\Jb. f. wiss. Botanik 28: 39–150.   **[Mattick Rec.# 22010] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)**

References

• Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Psora (p. 597-604) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22402] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Psora crenata and distribution map for North America: p. 599; color photo: p. 599, plate 723)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Psora Hoffm. (pp. 164-171) In - A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp.   **[RLL List # 180 / Rec.# 21417] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Description of Psora crenata and color photo: p. 166)

• Timdal, E. (1986) A revision of Psora (Lecideaceae) in North America. - The Bryologist 89: 253–275.   **[RLL List # 131 / Rec.# 18653] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (PDF file - 47 MB)(Discussion of [No. 3] Psora crenata: pp. 260-261; black-and-white photo: p. 260, Fig. 8; distribution map for North America: p. 258, Fig. 4)

• Timdal, E. (2002) Psora (pp. 418-430) 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.# 23117] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (PDF file - 27 MB) (Discussion of Psora crenata and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 422)

Links

• Psora crenata in United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, PLANTS Database.

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

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

• Psora crenata in Index Fungorum.

• Psora crenata in MycoBank.

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Psora crenata

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

Vernacular names

English: Brick scale lichen,   Crenate fishscale lichen