Lepraria lobificans

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Stereocaulaceae
Genus: Lepraria
Species: Lepraria lobificans

Name

Lepraria lobificans Nyl., Flora [Regensburg] 56(13): 196 (1873). [MycoBank #393261]

Typification Details: Lectotype H-NYL 10864 [selected by Laundon 1992]

Host-Substratum/Locality: On soil: Pyrénées-Orientales, France

Homotypic synonym

• Leproloma lobificans (Nyl.) Boistel, Nouv. Fl. Lich. 2: 318 (1903). [MycoBank #393290]

Heterotypic synonym

• Lepraria santosii Argüello & A.Crespo in Crespo et al., Lichenologist 38(3): 218 (2006). [MycoBank #521714]

References

• Boistel, A.B. 1903. Nouvelle Flore des Lichens. 2 [partie scientifique]: 1–352. Paul Dupont, Paris. Gallica Reference page. 

• Crespo, A., Argüello, A., Lumbsch, H.T., Llimona, X. & Tønsberg, T. 2006. A new species of Lepraria (Lecanorales: Stereocaulaceae) from the Canary Islands and the typification of Lepraria isidiata. The Lichenologist 38(3): 213–221. DOI: 10.1017/S0024282906005846 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Nylander, W. 1873. Observata lichenologica in Pyrenaeis orientalibus. III. La Massane; IV. Collioure; V. Perpinianum. Flora, oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung, herausgegeben von der königl. bayer. botanischen Gesellschaft in Regensburg 56(5): 65–75, 56(13): 193–207. BHL BHL Reference page. 

• Lendemer, J.C. 2013. A monograph of the crustose members of the genus Lepraria Ach. s. str. (Stereocaulaceae, Lichenized Ascomycetes) in North America north of Mexico. Opuscula Philolichenum 12: 27–141. NYBG (online) Reference page.  (p. 62)

• Ohmura, Y., Frisch, A., Lendemer, J.C. & Nakanishi, M. 2016. Lichens of Mikura-jima Island, Izu Islands, Central Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science [Tokyo], Series B (Botany) 42(1): 1–18. ResearchGate . Kahaku (PDF) Reference page.  (p. 8)

• Timdal, E. & Tønsberg, T. 2021. Lepraria lobificans (syn. L. santosii) and L. sylvicola new to northern Europe from Norway. Graphis Scripta 33(3): 50–58. Nordic Lichen Society (PDF) Reference page.  (pp. 53–55)

Links

• Index Fungorum: IF 393261
• MycoBank: MB 393261

• Checklist of Lichens and Allied Fungi of Japan (2018) (p. 66)

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Lepraria lobificans

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Lepraria lobificans

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Lepraria lobificans

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Lepraria lobificans

Vernacular names

English: Fluffy dust lichen,   Dust lichen
日本語: アツバレプラゴケ
Nederlands: Gelobde poederkorst