Thelomma ocellatum

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Thelomma
Species: Thelomma ocellatum

Name

Thelomma ocellatum (Körb.) Tibell, 1976

Substrate and ecology: On nutrient-enriched wood, especially on tops of fence posts, gate rails, or shingles (usually sterile) adjacent to fields and pastures enriched by nitrogen, wharves, stumps, also on dry sprouting twigs and stems of Pinus or Larix in less nutrient-rich sites at higher elevations.

World distribution: South Africa, Europe and western North America

Sonoran distribution: Southern California at 1370 m

Basionym

• Acolium ocellatum Körb., Parerga Lich.: 285 (1861)

Synonymy

• Cyphelium ocellatum (Körb.) Trevis.

References

• Tibell, Bot. Notiser 129(3): 240 (1976)

• Tibell, L. (1976) The genus Thelomma. - Bot. Not. 129: 221–249.   (RLL List # 95 / Rec. # 18595 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Thelomma ocellatum: fig. 11)

• Koerber, G.W. (1861) Parerga lichenologica. - Breslau. 193-288 pp.   (Mattick Rec.# 33039 - Literature on Lichens)

• Purvis, O.W.; Coppins, B.J.; Hawksworth, D.L.; James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) Thelomma Massal., 1860 (p. 598) In, The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp.   (RLL List # 151 / Rec. # 15105 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Thelomma ocellatum: p. 598)

• Tibell, L. (1999) Calicioid lichens and fungi. - In: Ahti, T/Jørgensen, PM/Kristinsson, H/Moberg, R/Søchting, U/Thor, G (eds.): Nordic Lichen Flora. Volume 1. Introductory Parts. Calicioid Lichens and Fungi. Nordic Lichen Society, Uddevalla, pp. 20-94.   (RLL List # 182 / Rec. # 21646 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Thelomma ocellatum: plate 11)

• Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Thelomma (pp. 533-536) 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. # 25967 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Thelomma ocellatum: pp. 535-536)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Cyphelium Ach. (pp. 211-215) In American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages.   (RLL List # 170 / Rec. # 18517 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Thelomma ocellatum [as Cyphelium ocellatum]: p. 211; black-and-white photo and distribution map for Thelomma ocellatum [as Cyphelium ocellatum]: p. 213)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Thelomma Massal. (pp. 902-903) - 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) (Description of Thelomma ocellatum: p. 903)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#17) 16 May 2011

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Thelomma ocellatum

• The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Thelomma ocellatum

• Lichen Gallery of Leif and Anita Stridvall - Thelomma ocellatum

• U.S Forest Service Lichen Photos - Thelomma ocellatum

Vernacular names

English: Thelomma lichen