Physcia tenella

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Physciaceae
Genus: Physcia
Species: Physcia tenella
Subspecies: P. t. subsp. marina – P. t. subsp. tenella

Name

Physcia tenella (Scop.) DC.

Basionym: Lichen tenellus Scop., 1772

Synonyms

• Physcia subobscura Nyl., 1869
• Lichen tenellus Scop., Fl. carniol., Edn 2 (Wien) 2: 394 (1772)
• Parmelia tenella Ach., Method. Lich.: 250 (1803)
• Physcia hispida sensu auct. brit. p.p.; fide Checklist of Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland (2002)
• Physcia hispida var. tenella (Ach.) Walt. Watson, Lich. Somerset: 28 (1930)
• Xanthoria tenella (Scop.) Horw., 1912

References

• DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle, Fl. franç., Edn 3 (Paris) 2: 396 (1805)

• Lamarck, de and De Candolle (1805) Flore Francaise. Troisième edition. Vol. I-IV. - Paris.   (Mattick Rec.# 33435 - Literature on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Physcia (pp. 546-560) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of Physcia tenella: pp. 559-560; distribution map for North America: p. 559; color photo: p. 559, plate 674)

• Coppins, B.J. (1992) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux, 1803 (pp. 467-470) 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 Physcia tenella: p. 468)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Anaptychia (pp. 55-56) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.   (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22402 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella: p. 305; color photo and map: p. 306)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Physcia (Schreb.) Michx., 1803 (pp. 388-399) 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.   (RLL List # 210 / Rec. # 30032 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella: p. 399; color photo: p. 399, fig. 250)

• McCune, B. and Geiser, L. (2009) Physcia (pp. 265-272) In: Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. (Second Edition) Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 464 pp.   (RLL List # 216 / Rec. # 31233 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella and color photos: p. 272)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux (pp. 182-186) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.   (RLL List # 190 / Rec. # 24161 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella: pp. 185-186)

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux (pp. 296-303) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 26085 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella: p. 302; color photo: p. 303)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Physcia (Schreber) Michaux (pp. 724-735) - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German.   (RLL List # 159 / Rec. # 20405 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Physcia tenella: p. 734)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Physcia tenella

• A Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Physcia tenella

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

• Lichen Gallery of Leif & Anita Stridvall - Physcia tenella

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Physcia tenella

Vernacular names

English: Fringed coastal rosette lichen,   Fringed rosette lichen,   Rosette lichen
Nederlands: Heksenvingermos