Dirina calcicola

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Arthoniales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Arthoniomycetes Ordo: Arthoniales

Familia: Roccellaceae
Genus: Dirina
Species: Dirina calcicola

Name

Dirina calcicola Sparrius, 2004

Diagnosis: Thallus viridis vel ochraceus, esorediatus, crassus; cortex hyphis anticlinalis; medulla cretacea; ascomat immersa, punctiformia vel rare lirelliformia, fusca; ascosporae triseptatae, fusiformes; acida lichenum desunt.

Type: U.S.A. Florida, Monroe Co., Key West, on hard limestone, February 1898, R. Thaxter 415 (NY, holotype), with Verrucaria sp.; TLC: nil. Thaxter 406. TLC: not tested (NY, paratype).

Etymology: Named after the ecology of the species: growing on limestone.

References

• Sparrius, L.B. (2004) Dirina calcicola, a new lichen species from Florida, U.S.A. - The Bryologist 107(4): 521–523. (Recent Literature on Lichens) (DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(2004)107[521:DCANLS]2.0.CO;2) (Dirina calcicola, photo of thallis: p. 521, fig. 1; diagram of ascospores: p. 522, fig. 2)

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#16) 18 June 2010.

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Dirina calcicola