Xylographa vitiligo

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Baeomycetales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Ostropomycetidae Order: Baeomycetales

Familia: Xylographaceae
Genus: Xylographa
Species: Xylographa vitiligo

Name

Xylographa vitiligo (Ach.) J.R. Laundon,

Substrate and ecology: On conifer wood and stumps, including driftwood, in maritime to high montane sites, mostly on decaying trunks near the ground in humid situations; in Douglas fir, pine-fir, and spruce-fir forests

World distribution: Holarctic in the Northern Hemisphere, centered in the boreal zone and the oroboreal belt in Europe and North America

Basionym

• Spiloma vitiligo Ach., Meth. Lich.: 10 (1803)

Synonyms

• Agyrium spilomaticum Anzi,: 20 (1864)
• Coniocarpon vitiligo (Ach.) DC., 1815
• Spiloma vitiligo Ach., Method. Lich.: 10 (1803)
• Variolaria vitiligo (Ach.) Turner, Lich. Brit.: 53 (1839)
• Xylographa spilomatica (Anzi) Th. Fr., Lich. Scand. (Uppsala) 1: 639 (1874)
• Xylographa corrugans Norman, Bot. Notiser: 34 (1872)
• Xylographa coruscans Norman, Bot. Notiser: 31 (1872)
• Xylographa minutula Körb.

References

Primary

• J.R. Laundon, Lichenologist 2: 147 (1963)

• Laundon, JR (1963) The taxonomy of sterile crustaceous lichens in the British Isles. 2. Corticolous and lignicolous species. - Lichenologist 2: 101–151.   **[RLL List # 62 / Rec.# 11130] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (DOI:10.1017/S002428296300013X)

Secondary

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Xylographa (p. 414-415) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22402] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Xylographa vitiligo: p. 414; color photo & map: p. 415)

• Orange, A. (1992) Xylographa (Fr.) Fr. (1838) (pp. 648-649) 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.   **[RLL List # 151 / Rec.# 15105] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Xylographa vitiligo: p. 649)

• Ryan, B.D. (2004) Xylographa (pp. 612-616) 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.# 25979] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discusson of Xylographa vitiligo and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 616)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Xylographa Fr. (pp. 645-647 In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages.   **[RLL List # 170 / Rec.# 18517] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Xylographa vitiligo and distribution map for North America: p. 647)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Xylographa (Fr.) Fr. (pp. 978-980) - 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)** (Discussion of Xylographa vitiligo: p. 980)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

• Checklist to Norwegian lichens (May 2011)

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Xylographa vitiligo

• Stephen Sharnoff's lichen photos - Xylographa vitiligo

Vernacular names

English: Xylographa lichen