Richard Clinton Harris

Richard Clinton Harris (6 December 1939 – 10 May 2021), American lichenologist.

IPNI standard form: R.C.Harris

Address:

Research Associate for lichens, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

36 taxon names authored by Richard Clinton Harris

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

Harris, R.C. 1973. The corticolous pyrenolichens of the Great Lakes region. The Michigan Botanist 12(1): 3–68. HathiTrust RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 1985. Lichens of the New Jersey pine barrens collected on the seventh A. Leroy Andrews Foray, 1982. Evansia 2(3): 44–47. Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 1989. A sketch of the family Pyrenulaceae (Melanommatales) in eastern North America. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 49: 74–107. Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 1990. Some Florida Lichens.: 1–109. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 1995. More Florida Lichens: Including the 10¢ Tour of the Pyrenolichens.: 1–192. New York Botanical Garden. RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 1998. A preliminary revision of Pseudopyrenula Müll. Arg. (lichenized ascomycetes, Trypetheliaceae) with a redisposition of the names previously assigned to the genus. In Glenn, M.G., Harris, R.C., Dirig, R. & Cole, M.S. (eds.), Lichenographia Thomsoniana: North American Lichenology in Honor of John W. Thomson.: 133–148. Mycotaxon Ltd., New York. Reference page.
Harris, R.C. 2005. Some Name Changes in Porina s. lat. Opuscula Philolichenum 2: 15–16. The New York Botanical Garden RLL (PDF) Reference page.
Harris, R.C. & Ladd, D.M. 2005. Preliminary draft: Ozark lichens; Enumerating the lichens of the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma: Prepared for the 14th Tuckerman Lichen Workshop.: 1–149. RLL List # 241 / Rec.# 36944 – Recent Literature on Lichens The New York Botanical Garden Reference page.
Harris, R.C. & Ladd, D. 2007. New taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ozark Ecoregion. Opuscula Philolichenum 4: 57–68. PDF Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C., Harris, R.C. & Tripp, E.A. 2007. Heterodermia neglecta (Physciaceae), a new lichen species from eastern North America. The Bryologist 110(3): 490–493. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(2007)110[490:HNPANL]2.0.CO;2 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Tripp, E.A., Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2009 [‘2010’]. Resolving the genus Graphina Müll. Arg. in North America: new species, new combinations, and treatments for Acanthothecis, Carbacanthographis, and Diorygma. The Lichenologist 42(1): 55–71. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282909990296 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Knudsen, K., Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2011. Studies in lichens and lichenicolous fungi – no 15: miscellaneous notes on species from eastern North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 9: 45–75. RLL List # 223 / Rec.# 32902 – Recent Literature on Lichens The New York Botanical Garden Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C., Harris, R.C. & Tripp, E.A. 2013. The Lichens and Allied Fungi of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: An Annotated Checklist with Comprehensive Keys. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 104: 1–152. Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2014. Studies in lichens and lichenicolous fungi – No. 19: Further notes on species from the Coastal Plain of southeastern North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 13: 155–176. New York Botanical Garden ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2014. Seven new species of Graphidaceae (Lichenized Ascomycetes) from the Coastal Plain of southeastern North America. Phytotaxa 189(1): 153–175. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.189.1.11 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2016. Studies in Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi – No. 20: Further notes on species from the eastern North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 15: 105–131. NYBG ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C., Harris, R.C. & Ruiz, A.M. 2016. A Review of the Lichens of the Dare Regional Biodiversity Hotspot in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Eastern North America. Castanea 81(1): 1–77. DOI: 10.2179/15-073R2 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Lendemer, J.C. & Harris, R.C. 2017. Nomenclatural changes for North American members of the Variolaria-group necessitated by the recognition of Lepra (Pertusariales). The Bryologist 120(2): 183–190. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.2.183 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

External links

Festschrift

Volume 7 of Opuscula Philolichenum (2009) is a Festschrift presented to R.C. Harris on his 70th birthday.

Buck, W.R. (2009) Biographical sketch: Richard Clinton Harris, the quintessential North American lichenologist. Opuscula Philolichenum 7 : vii-xxvi. Richard C. Harris

List of species named after Richard C. Harris: p. xvi.
List of Publications by Richard C. Harris: pp. xvi-xviii.
List of dates and field work locations of Richard C. Harris: p. xviii.
List of genera and species named by Richard C. Harris: pp. xix-xxvi.