Staurothele fissa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Eurotiomycetes Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Staurothele
Species: Staurothele fissa

Name

Staurothele fissa (Taylor) Zwackh, 1862

Type: IRELAND. Carrig, Co. Kerry, T.Taylor; holo: ?BM, n.v.

Basionym

• Verrucaria fissa Taylor, in Mackey 1836

Synonyms

• Dermatocarpon lithinum (Ach.) Arnold, 1861
• Endocarpon fissum Leight., Brit. Sp. Ang. Lich.: 20 (1851)
• Endocarpon lithinum (Ach.) Leight., Brit. Sp. Ang. Lich.: 19 (1851)
• Polyblastia fissa (Taylor) Jatta, 1900
• Polyblastia umbrina (Wahlenb.) Rostr., 1871 [1870-71]
• Pyrenula lithina (Ach.) Ach., 1814
• Sphaeromphale fissa (Taylor) Körb., 1855
• Sphaeromphale umbrina (Wahlenb.) Mudd, Man. Brit. Lich.: 281 (1861)

References

Primary references

• Zwackh Flora 45: 552 (1862).

• Zwackh, W. Ritter von (1862) Enumeratio Lichenum Florae Heidelbergensis. Ein Beitrag zur Flora der Pfalz. - Flora (Regensburg)\Flora 1862:   **[Mattick Rec.# 33395] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)** (BHL)

Additional references

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Staurothele (pp. 661-663) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22465] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Staurothele fissa and distribution map for North America: p. 662; color photo: p. 663, plate 810)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Staurothele (pp. 364-365 ) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22402] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Staurothele fissa: p. 364; map, color photo and drawing of perithecium: p. 365)

• Purvis, O.W and James, P.W. (1992) Staurothele Norman, 1853 (pp. 572-575) 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 Staurothele fissa: p. 574)

• Thomson, J.W. (1991) The lichen genus Staurothele in North America. - The Bryologist 94(4): 351–367.   **[RLL List # / Rec.# 18504] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Discussion of 9. Staurothele fissa: pp. 357-361; black-and-white photo: p. 358, fig. 9; distribution map: p. 365, fig. 22)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Staurothele Norman (pp. 590-597) 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 Staurothele fissa: pp. 595 & 596; black-and-white photo and distribution map for the American arctic: p. 596)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Staurothele Norman (pp. 219-221) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.   **[RLL List # 190 / Rec.# 24161] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Staurothele fissa: pp. 220-221)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Staurothele Norman (pp. 869-873) - Teil 2 - In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German.   **[RLL List # 159 / Rec.# 20405] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Staurothele fissa: p. 871)

Links

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

• Information on Staurothele fissa (by P.M. McCarthy)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#15) 27 Aug 2009

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Staurothele fissa

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Staurothele fissa

• Irish lichens (Jenny Seawright) - Staurothele fissa

Vernacular names

English: Lakezone lichen,   Wart lichen