Nephromopsis merrillii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lecanorales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holomycota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae Ordo: Lecanorales

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Nephromopsis
Species: Nephromopsis merrillii

Name

Nephromopsis merrillii (Du Rietz) Divakar, A.Crespo & Lumbsch in Divakar et al., Fungal Diversity 84: 112 (2017). [MycoBank #820160]

Basionym

• Cetraria merrillii Du Rietz, Ark. Bot. 20A(11): 42 (1926). [MycoBank #382428]

Typification Details: Typification: not indicated. Lectotype LD, Herre, s.n. (Krypt. Exs. Vind. 1047) (Designated by Thell & Goward, Bryologist 99(2): 128. 1996).

Homotypic synonyms

• Tuckermanopsis merrillii (Du Rietz) Hale [as 'Tuckermannopsis'] in Egan, Bryologist 90(2): 164 (1987). [MycoBank #132253]

• Tuckermannopsis merrillii (Du Rietz) Hale (1987). [MycoBank #539349] (orth. var.)

• Kaernefeltia merrillii (Du Rietz) A.Thell & Goward, Bryologist 99(2): 128 (1996). [MycoBank #415496]

References

• Divakar, P.K., Crespo, A., Kraichak, E., Leavitt, S.D., Singh, G., Schmitt, I. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2017. Using a temporal phylogenetic method to harmonize family- and genus-level classification in the largest clade of lichen-forming fungi. Fungal Diversity 84(1): 101–117. DOI: 10.1007/s13225-017-0379-z . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Du Rietz, G.E. 1926. Vorarbeiten zu einer "Synopsis Lichenum" I. Die Gattungen Alectoria, Oropogon und Cornicularia. Arkiv för Botanik 20A(11): 1–43. Reference page. 

• Egan, R.S. 1987. A Fifth Checklist of the Lichen-Forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of the Continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 90(2): 77–173. DOI: 10.2307/3242609 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

• Thell, A. & Goward, T. 1996. The new cetrarioid genus Kaernefeltia and related groups in the Parmeliaceae (lichenized Ascomycotina). The Bryologist 99(2): 125–136. DOI: 10.2307/3244544 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Links

• Index Fungorum: IF 820160
• MycoBank: MB 820160

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -as Kaernefeltia merrillii

Vernacular names

• English: Flattened thornbush lichen