Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Alectoria
Species: Alectoria sarmentosa
Subspecies: Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa

Name

Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa (Ach.) Ach., 1810

Basionym

• Lichen sarmentosa Ach., 1795

References

• Lichenogr. univ. (1810)

• Acharius, E. (1810) Lichenographia Universalis. Cum tab. aen. color. - Göttingen. 689 pp.   (Mattick Rec.# 30922 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file)

• LIAS

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Alectoria (pp. 150-155) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of A. sarmentosa and distribution map for North America: p. 154; full page color photo: p. 155, plate 103)

• Goward, T. 1999. The lichens of British Columbia - Illustrated Keys - Part 2 - Fruticose Species. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests Research Program, 319 pp. (RLL List # 176 / Rec.# 6980 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Online Reference page. : Alectoria Ach. (pp. 47-50) (Description of A. sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa: p. 49)

• Hale, M.E. and Cole, M. (1988) Alectoria Ach. (pp. 134-137) In Lichens of California. University of California Press, 254 pages. (Description of A. sarmentosa: pp. 136-137; black-and-white photo: p. 136, fig. 52c)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Alectoria Ach. (1809) (pp. 117-120) In, The Macrolichens of New England. The New York Botanical Garden Press, 584 pp. (Description of Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa: p. 119)

• McCune, B. and Geiser, L. (1997) Alectoria (pp. 20-24) Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 386 pp. (Description of A. sarmentosa and color photo: p. 23; drawing of thalllus: p. 21)

• Purvis, O.W. (1992) Alectoria Ach. (1810) (pp. 67-69) 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. (Description of Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa: p. 69)

• Ryan, B.D. (2002) Alectoria (pp. 92-95) In: Nash III, T.H., Ryan, B.D, Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages. (Description of Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa: pp. 94-95)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Alectoria Ach. (p. 31) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp. (Description of Alectoria sarmentosa subsp. sarmentosa and color photo: p. 31)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Alectoria Ach. (pp. 117-119) - Teil 1) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of A. sarmentosa: p. 119)

• North American Lichen Checklist

• USDA Plants Database
• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• The Lichen Portrait Gallery - Alectoria sarmentosa

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Alectoria sarmentosa

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Alectoria sarmentosa

• Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Alectoria sarmentosa

• The Lichen Herbarium, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway (Photo Gallery) - Alectoria sarmentosa)

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Alectoria sarmentosa

Vernacular names

English: Witch's hair;   Common witch's hair;   Stringy mane