Sporastatia testudinea

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Sporastatiaceae
Genus: Sporastatia
Species: Sporastatia testudinea

Name

Sporastatia testudinea (Ach.) A. Massal., 1855

Substrate and ecology: On siliceous rocks in the open, in wind-swept sites, mostly on steeply inclined, exposed surfaces in alpine or subalpine habitats

World distribution: Widespread in mountain ranges of Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe and North America and extending into South America, Australia, and South Georgia

Basionym

Lecidea cechumena var. testudinea Ach., K. Vetensk-Acad. Nya Handl. 29: 232 (1808)

Synonyms

Biatorella kulshanensis Herre, 1943 (Source: Ketzner 2010)

Acarospora testudinea (Ach.) A. Massal., Memor. Lichenogr.: 130 (1853)

Biatorella testudinea (Ach.) A. Massal., 1852

Lecidea cechumena var. testudinea Ach., K. Vetensk-Acad. Nya Handl.: 232 (1808)

References

A. Massal., Geneac. Lich.: 9 (1855)

Massalongo, A.B. (1854) Geneacaena lichenum ab A. prof. Massalongo noviter proposita ac descripta. - Tip. Antonellianis\Verona. 1-24 pp. (Mattick Rec.# 31940 - Literature on Lichens)

Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Sporastatia (pp. 659-660). In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Sporastatia testudinea and distribution map for North America: p. 660; color photo: p. 660, plate 806)

Coppins, B.J. and Gilbert, O.L. (1992) Sporastatia Massal. (1854) (pp. 571-572) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (RLL List # 151 / Rec. # 15105 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Sporastatia testudinea: pp. 571-572)

Ketzner, D.M. (2010) An evaluation of the nomenclatural status of Biatorella kulshanensis Herre. Evansia 27(3): 92–93. (BioOne) (Biatorella kulshanensis was shown to be synonymous with Sporastatia testudinea)

Ryan, B.D. and Nash III, T.H. (2004) Sporastatia (pp. 508-509) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages. (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25959 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Sporastatia testudinea and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 509)

Thomson, J.W. (1997) Sporastatia Massal. (pp. 587-590). In American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (RLL List # 170 / Rec. # 18517 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Sporastatia testudinea: pp. 587 & 590; drawing and distribution map for the North American arctic: p. 589)

Lamb, I.M. Index Nominum Lichenum: 79 (1963)
- Biatorella Kulshanensis Herre in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, LVI (1943) p. 18. (U.S.A., ad saxa vulcanica)

Herre, A.W.C.T. (1943) Two new species of lichens and new records from Washington State and North Carolina. - Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 56: 17–20. (Mattick Rec.# 30940 - Literature on Lichens)