Phaeocalicium curtisii

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Mycocaliciaceae
Genus: Phaeocalicium
Species: Phaeocalicium curtisii

Name

Phaeocalicium curtisii (Tuck.) Tibell, 1975

Saprophytic fungus: related to either lichens or lichenicolous fungi

World distribution: Boreal and north temperate zones of North America

Basionym

• Calicium curtisii Tuck., Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts ser. 2, 28: 201 (1859)

Homotypic synonyms

• Baculifera curtisii (Tuck.) Marbach, Biblthca Lichenol. 74: 119 (2000)
• Buellia curtisii (Tuck.) Imshaug, 1968
• Calicium curtisii Tuck., 1859
• Gyrostomum curtisii Tuck., Amer. J. Sci. Arts 25: 430 (1858)
• Mycocalicium curtisii (Tuck.) A. Schneid., 1897
• Phacotium curtisii (Tuck.) Trevis., 1862

References

Primary

• Tibell, Symb. Bot. Upsal. 21 (2): 58 (1975)

• Tibell, L. (1975) The Caliciales of boreal North America. Taxonomy, ecological and distributional comparisons with Europe, and ultrastructural investigations in some species. - Symbolae Bot. Upsaliensis 21 (2): 1–128. **[RLL List # 92-86 / Rec.# 18593] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

Secondary

• Bungartz, F., Nordin, A. and Grube, U. (2007) Buellia (pp. 113-179) 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. # 29889 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Discussion of Buellia curtissii: p. 136)

• Imshaug, in Brodo, N.Y.S. Mus. and Sci. Serv. Bull. 410: 253 (1968).
  • Brodo, I.M. (1968) The Lichens of Long Island, New York: A Vegetational and Floristic Analysis. Bulletin 410, New York State Mus. & Sci. Service, Univ. State of New York, Albany. x + 330 pp.   (RLL List # 68 / Rec. # 2446 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Selva, S.B. 2014: The calicioid lichens and fungi of the Acadian Forest ecoregion of northeastern North America, II. The rest of the story. The Bryologist 117(4): 336–367.   (BioOne)   (Phaeocalicium curtisii: pp. 358-359)

• Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Phaeocalicium (pp. 399-401) 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.# 25938] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Phaeocalicium curtisii: p. 400)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#16) 18 June 2010.

• Phaeocalicium curtisii in Index Fungorum.

• Phaeocalicium curtisii in MycoBank

Link to photo

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Phaeocalicium curtisii

Vernacular names

English: Curtis' phaeocalicium lichen