Tephromela cerasina

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Tephromelataceae
Genus: Tephromela
Species: Tephromela cerasina

Name

Tephromela cerasina (Müll. Arg.) Rambold & Triebel, 1992

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Substrate and ecology: Subtropical to tropical, on Dirinaria species; (the Sonoran collections were on Dirinaria neotropica

World distribution: Brazil to northern Mexico and West Africa

Sonoran distribution: southern Arizona and the thorn forest-desert transition area

Basionym

• Nesolechia cerasina Müll. Arg., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 30: 72 (1891)

References

• Rambold & Triebel, Biblioth. Lichenol. 48: 170 (1992)

• Rambold, G. and Triebel, D. (1992) The Inter-lecanoralean Associations. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica, 48, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart. 201 pp.   (RLL List # 150 / Rec. # 15272 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Band 48)

• Nash III, T.H.; Kalb, K. and Rambold, G. (2004) Tephromela (pp. 530-532) 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. # 25965 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Tephromela cerasina: pp. 531)

• Checklist of the lichens of Australia and its Island Territories (List T)

• Australian lichens (J.A. Elix) - Discussion of Tephromela cerasina.

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#18) 13 Dec 2012

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank