Melanelixia subargentifera

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Melanelixia
Species: Melanelixia subargentifera

Name

Melanelixia subargentifera (Nyl.) O.Blanco, A. Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D. Hawksw. & Lumbsch, 2004

Basionym

• Parmelia subargentifera Nyl., 1875

Synonyms

• Melanelia subargentifera (Nyl.) Essl., 1978
• Parmelia subargentifera Nyl., 1875
• Parmelia conspurcata (Schaer.) Vain.

References

• Mycol. Res. 108(8): 882 (2004)

• Blanco, O.; Crespo, A.; Divakar, P.K.; Esslinger, T.L.; Hawksworth, D.L. and Lumbsch, H.T. (2004) Melanelixia and Melanohalea, two new genera segregated from Melanelia (Parmeliaceae) based on molecular and morphological data. - Mycological Research 108(8): 873–884.   (RLL List # 197 / Rec.# 26150 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Melanelia (pp. 430-441) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera and distribution map for North America: p. 439; color photo: p. 440, plate 506 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Esslinger, T.L. (2002) Melanelia (pp. 274-286) 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 Melanelixia subargentifera: pp. 282-283; black-and-white photo of thallus: p. 282; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 281 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Flenniken, D. (1999) Melanelia Essl. (pp. 138-142) In The Macrolichens In West Virginia, 231 pages, 26 plates. (Published by D. Flenniken, 2273 Blachleyville Rd, Wooster, Ohio 44691) (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera: pp. 141-142 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Melanelia Essl., 1978 (pp. 305-321) In, The Macrolichens of New England. - Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden No. 96. New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, New York. 584 pp. (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera: p. 319 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Purvis, O.W. and James, P.W. (1992) Parmelia Ach., 1803 (pp. 421-437) 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 Melanelixia subargentifera: p. 434 [as Parmelia subargentifera])

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Melanelia Essl. (pp. 116-120) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp. (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera and color photo: p. 119 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Melanelia Essl. (pp. 140-144) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera: p. 143 [as Melanelia subargentifera])

• Wirth, V. (1995) Melanelia Essl. (pp. 649-656) - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of Melanelixia subargentifera and color photo of thallus: p. 656 [as Parmelia subargentifera])

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

• LIAS

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Melanelixia subargentifera

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Melanelixia subargentifera

• A Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Melanelixia subargentifera

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

Vernacular names

English: Whiskered camouflage lichen;   Whiskered brown-shield lichen