Chaenotheca gracillima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coniocybales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Coniocybomycetes Ordo: Coniocybales

Familia: Coniocybaceae
Genus: Chaenotheca
Species: Chaenotheca gracillima

Name

Chaenotheca gracillima (Vainio) Tibell, 1984

Basionym

• Coniocybe gracillima Vain., 1881

Synonyms

• Coniocybe gracilenta f. leucocephala F.Wilson, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 5: 170 (1893)
• Coniocybe gracillima Vain., 1881
• Sclerophora gracillima (Vain.) Tibell

References

Primary

• Tibell, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 79: 664 (1984)

• Tibell, L. (1984) A reappraisal of the taxonomy of Caliciales. - In: Hertel, H. and Oberwinkler, F. (eds.): Beitrage zur Lichenologie. Festschrift J. Poelt. Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia 79. J. Cramer, Vaduz, pp. 597-713.   [RLL List # 123-108 / Rec.# 18609] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)

Secondary

• 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. : Chaenotheca (Th. Fr.) Th. Fr. (pp. 76-88) (Description of C. gracillima: p. 84; fig. 16a, p. 81)

• 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)   (Chaenotheca gracillima: p. 345)

Links

• LIAS

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories (List "C")

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#14) 8 Oct 2008

• Chaenotheca gracillima in Index Fungorum.

• Chaenotheca gracillima in MycoBank

Links to photos

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

Vernacular names

English: Cat's whiskers,   Needle lichen