Verrucaria inficiens

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Eurotiomycetes Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Verrucaria
Species: Verrucaria inficiens

Name edit

Verrucaria inficiens Breuss, 1998

Lichenicolous on Staurothele.

Synonyms edit

Catapyrenium plumbeum (de Lesd.) J.W.Thomson [non Verrucaria plumbea Ach.]
Dermatocarpon plumbeum
Endopyrenium plumbeum de Lesd., 1932
non Verrucaria plumbea Ach., 1810

References edit

Breuss, Annln naturh. Mus. Wien, Ser. B, Bot. Zool. 100: 672 (1998)

Breuss, O. (1998) On the taxonomy of "Catapyrenium" plumbeum (lichenized Ascomycetes, Verrucariaceae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 100B: 671–676.

Breuss, O. (2007) Verrucaria (pp. 335-377). 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. (V. inficiens description: pp. 358-59; color photo in central section of Vol. III)

Thomson, J.W. (1987) The lichen genera Catapyrenium and Placidiopsis in North America. Bryologist 90: 27–39. (Illustration of V. inficiens: p. 30) [1]

Index Fungorum

North American Lichen Checklist (May 2008)

Links to photos edit

Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Verrucaria inficiens