Usnea lapponica

Taxonavigation

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

Usnea lapponica Vainio, 1925

Substrate and ecology: On bark, especially on Abies spp., Pinus spp., Picea spp., and Quercus spp.

Vainio, E. (1925) Enumeration Usnearum in Fennia collectarum. - Meddel. Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica\Meddel. Soc. Fauna et Flora Fenn. 48: 172–174. (Mattick Rec.# 30396 - Mattick's Index on Lichens)

Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Usnea (pp. 709-726) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of U. lapponica, and distribution map for North America: p. 721; color photo: p. 721, plate 888)

Clerc, P. (1987) On the morphology of soralia in the genus Usnea, pp. 99-102 in Peveling, E. (ed.) Progress and Problems in Lichenology in the Eighties. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 25. (RLL List # 131 / Rec.# 3370 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Illustration of U. lapponica: p. 101)

Clerc, P. (2007) Usnea (pp. 302-335) 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. (RLL List # 210 / Rec.# 29910 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Description of U. lapponica: pp. 323-324; distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 324)

Goward, T. 1999. The lichens of British Columbia - Illustrated Keys - Part 2 - Fruticose Species. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests Research Program, 319 pp. (RLL List # 176 / Rec.# 6980 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Online Reference page. : (Illustration of U. lapponica: p. 252)

Hale, M.E. (1979) How to know the Lichens. 2nd edn. Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 246 pages. (Illustration of U. lapponica [as Usnea fulvoreagens]: p. 217)

Halonen, P., Clerc, P., Goward, T., Brodo, I.M. and Wulff, K. (1998) Synopsis of the genus Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) in British Columbia, Canada. The Bryologist 101(1): 36–60. (RLL List # 170 / Rec.# 7545 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (JSTOR) (Description of U. lapponica: pp. 52-53; black-and-white photo of branch with excavate, confluent soralia: p. 39, fig. 10)

Halonen, P., Myllys, L., Ahti, T. and Petrova, O.V. (1999) The lichen genus Usnea in East Fennoscandia. III. The shrubby species. Annales Botanici Fennici 36: 235–256. (RLL List # 179 / Rec.# 7548 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Web site) (Illustration of U. lapponica: p. 249)

Thomson, J.W. (2003) Usnea (pp.235-241). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of U. lapponica: pp. 238-239)

Wirth, V. (1995) Usnea (pp. 940-953 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of U. lapponica: p. 951)

The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Usnea lapponica

English: Powdered beard lichen, Lapland beard lichen