Usnea amblyoclada

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Usnea
Species: Usnea amblyoclada

Name

Usnea amblyoclada (Müll.Arg.) Zahlbr., 1930   (Source: Clerc, 2007)

Substratum: Primarily saxicolous.

Basionym

• Usnea barbata var. amblyoclada Müll.Arg., Flora 72: 509 (1889).

Synonymy

• Usnea globularis Motyka   (Source: Clerc & Herrera-Campos, 1997)

References

• Zahlbruckner, A. Catalogus Lichenum Universalis 6, 1930, page 534
  • Usnea amblyoclada Müll. Arg. in Flora, vol. LXXII, 1889, p. 509.   (Argentinia)

• Müller, J. (1889) Lichenes argentinenses a cl. D. Lorentz in Argentinia australi s. patagonica et prope Conceptionem lecti, additis nonnullis in Paraguay prope Assumpcion ab eodem lectis. - Flora (Regensburg)\Flora 72: 508–512.   (Mattick Rec.# 28778 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• 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. amblyoclada: pp. 712-713; distribution map for North America: p. 712; color photo: p. 713, plate 874)

• 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. amblyoclada: pp. 308-309; distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 308)

• 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. amblyoclada: pp. 285-287) (Black-and-white photos: p. 287, fig. 1a-c, shrubby & subpendant thalle; p. 288, fig. 2a-g, thallus and branches; p. 289, fig. 3, distribution map for North America)

• Rodriguez, J.M.; Estrabou, C.; Truong, C. and Clerc, P. (2011) The saxicolous species of the genus Usnea subgenus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in Argentina and Uruguay. The Bryologist 114(3): 504–525.   (RLL List # 225 / Rec.# 33316 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-114.3.504) (Discussion of Usnea amblyoclada: pp. 509-510)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Usnea amblyoclada

Vernacular names

English: Rock beard Lichen