Skyttella mulleri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cyttariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Leotiomycetes Ordo: Cyttariales

Familia: Cordieritidaceae
Genus: Skyttella
Species: Skyttella mulleri

Name

Skyttella mulleri (Willey) D. Hawksw. & R. Sant., 1988

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Synonyms

• Agyrium flavescens Rehm, Hedwigia 42: 173 (1903)
• Phacopsis mulleri Willey, Enumeration of the lichens found in New Bedford, Mass., and its vicinity from 1862 to 1892: 34 (1892)

References

• D. Hawksw. & R. Sant., Graphis Scripta 2(2): 34 (1988)

• Hawksworth, D.L. and Santesson, R. (1988) Skyttella, a new genus for Phacopsis mulleri Willey (syn. Agyrium flavescens Rehm). - Graphis Scripta 2(2): 33–37.   **[RLL List # 136 / Rec.# 7920] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Web site) (PDF file)

Links

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

English: Muller's skyttella lichen