Strangospora moriformis

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Incertae sedis
Genus: Strangospora
Species: Strangospora moriformis

Name

Strangospora moriformis (Ach.) Stein, 1879

Substrate and ecology: On decorticated wood and old mature bark of conifers; on dead branches of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) in chapararal.

Basionym: Arthonia moriformis Ach., 1814

Synonyms

• Arthonia moriformis Ach., 1814
• Biatorella moriformis (Ach.) Th.Fr., 1871
• Dothidea moriformis (Ach.) Fr.
• Kullhemia moriformis (Ach.) P.Karst., 1878
• Lecidea tantilla Nyl., 1856
• Triblidium moriforme (Ach.) Nyl.

References

• Stein, in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien 2: 176 (1879)
• Stein, B. (1879) Flechten. - In: Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien. Im Namen der Schles. Ges. f. vaterländ. Kultur herausgeg. v. Prof. Dr. Ferd. Cohn. - Jahresber. Schles. ges. f. vaterl. Cultur 2: 1–400.
• Duke, T. and Coppins, B.J. (1992) Strangospora, pp. 584-586, 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: Nat. Hist. Mus. Pub./Br. Lich. Soc., 710 pages. (Description of Strangospora moriformis: p. 585)
• Knudsen, K. and Ryan, B.D. (2007) Strangospora (pp. 299-301) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages. (Description of S. moriformis and distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 300)
• Ozenda, P. and Clauzade, G. (1970) Les Lichens, Étude biologique et Flore illustrée. Paris: Masson & Cie, 801 pp. (Illustration of S. moriformis: fig. 411)
• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Strangospora (p. 598-599). In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (Description of Strangospora moriformis: pp. 598-599; distribution map for North America: p. 599)
• Wirth, V. (1995) Strangospora (pp. 886-887 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of S. moriformis: p. 887)
• USDA Plants Database
• Index Fungorum
• North American Lichen Checklist (Sep 2008)

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Strangospora moriformis

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Strangospora moriformis

Vernacular names

English: Strangospora lichen