Stenocybe major

Taxonavigation

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

Stenocybe major Nyl. ex Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 306 (1855)

Life habit: Saprophytic?
Substrate and ecology: Corticolous on old trunks of Abies, sometimes on Picea, in montane forests
World distribution: Europe and North America (hemiboreal to oroboreal zone in Maine, Michigan, Ontario, British Columbia)

Stenocybe euspora (Nyl.) Anzi, Catal. Lich. Sondr., 1860, p. 77.
Stenocybe major var. major Nyl. ex Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 306 (1855), autonym

Körber, G.W. 1855. Systema Lichenum Germaniae. Die Flechten Deutschlands (insbesondere Schlesiens) mikroskopisch geprüft, kritisch gesichtet, charakteristisch beschrieben und systematisch geordnet. 458 pp., IV pls. Breslau: Trewendt & Granier. BHL Reference page.

Selva, S.B. 2014: The calicioid lichens and fungi of the Acadian Forest ecoregion of northeastern North America, II. The rest of the story. The Bryologist 117(4): 336–367. (BioOne) (Stenocybe major: p. 364)
Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Stenocybe (pp. 511-513) 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.# 25962] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Stenocybe major: p. 512)
Thomson, J.W. (1997) Stenocybe Nyl. (pp. 597-598) 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 Stenocybe major: p. 597; distribution map for the American arctic: p. 598)
Thomson, J.W. (2003) Stenocybe (Nyl.) Körber (p. 221) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. **[RLL List # xx / Rec.# 24161190] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Stenocybe major: p. 221)
Wirth, V. (1995) Stenocybe (Nyl.) Körber (pp. 874-875) - 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 Stenocybe major: p. 874)

English: Stenocybe lichen