Dactylospora parasitica

Dactylospora parasitica

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Dactylosporaceae
Genus: Dactylospora
Species: Dactylospora parasitica

Name

Dactylospora parasitica (Flörke) Zopf, 1896

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)

Hosts: Outside the Sonoran region: Pertusaria hymenea, Pertusaria communis, Pertusaria albescens, Ochrolechia species; on thallus and if present apothecia; commensalic.

Basionym: Lecidea parasitica Flörke, 1819

Synonyms

• Buellia parasitica (Flörke) Th.Fr.
• Leciographa flörkei (Körber) A.Massal.
• Leciographa inspersa sensu auct. brit., 2002
• Leciographa parasitica (Flörke) H.Olivier non A.Massal.

References

• Zopf, Hedwigia 35: 341 (1896)

• Zopf, W. (1896) Uebersicht der auf Flechten schmarotzenden Pilze. - Hedwigia 35: 312–366.   (Mattick Rec.# 23091 - Literature on Lichens) (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Hafellner, J. (1979) Karschia. Revision einer Sammelgattung an der Grenze von lichenisierten und nichlichenisierten Ascomyceten. - Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia 62: 1–248.   (RLL List # 104-39 / Rec. # 7242 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Dactylospora parasitica: p. 95)

• Hafellner, J. (2004) Dactylospora (pp. 645-648) 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. # 25993 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Dactylospora parasitica: p. 647)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Swedish ascomycetes in Herb. UME by Ove E. Eriksson

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

English: Parasitic dactylospora lichen