Acarospora contigua

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Acarospora
Species: Acarospora contigua

Name

Acarospora contigua H.Magn., 1929

Current name: Acarospora schleicheri   (from N.A. Lichen Checklist)

References

• Mycologia 21: 256 (1929)
• Magnusson, A.H. (1929) The yellow species of Acarospora in North America. Mycologia 21: 249–260.
• Knudsen, K. (2007) Acarospora (pp. 1–38). 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. (A. contigua, pp. 10–11)
• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Acarospora (pp. 145–148) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (A. contigua, description and photo, p. 146)
• Index Fungorum
• LIAS

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Acarospora contigua

Vernacular names

English: Gold cobblestone lichen