Usnea rubicunda

Taxonavigation edit

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

Usnea rubicunda Stirt., 1881

Substrate and ecology: On bark of Quercus spp., Pinus spp., and diverse shrubs, rarely on rock.

Stirton, J. (1881) On the genus Usnea and a new genus allied to it. - Scottish Naturalist 6: 100–107. (Mattick Rec.# 30097 - 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. rubicunda: pp. 723-724; distribution map for North America: p. 723; color photo: p. 723, plate 891)

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. rubicunda: pp. 328-329; distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 328)

Clerc, P. and Herrera-Campos, M.A. (1997) Saxicolous species of Usnea subgenus Usnea (Lichenized Ascomycetes) in North America. The Bryologist 100(3): 281–301. (RLL List # 168 / Rec.# 3361 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (JSTOR) (Description of U. rubicunda: pp. 299-300)

Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Usnea (pp. 389-398) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description of U. rubicunda: p. 397; color photo and distribution map: p. 398)

Hale, M.E. (1979) How to know the Lichens. 2nd edn. Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 246 pages. (Black-and-white photo of U. rubicunda: p. 218, fig. 435)

Hale, M.E. and Cole, M. (1988) Lichens of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 254 pp.(Color photo of U. rubicunda: plate llb)

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. rubicunda: p. 55; distribution map for British Columbia: p. 43, fig. 17)

James, P.W., Clerc, P. and Purvis, O.W. (1992) Usnea (pp. 620-629) 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: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Description of U. rubicunda: p. 628; diagram of pseudoisidia: p. 623, fig. 26b)

Thomson, J.W. (2003) Usnea (pp.235-241). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of U. rubicunda: p. 240)

Truong, C.; Bungartz, F. and Clerc, P. (2011) The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in the tropical Andes and the Galapagos: species with a red-orange cortical or subcortical pigmentation. The Bryologist 114(3): 477–503. (RLL List # 225 / Rec.# 33315 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-114.3.477) (JSTOR) (Discussion of Usnea rubicunda: pp. 493-494)

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. rubicunda: p. 952)