Polycoccum microstictum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trypetheliales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Dothideomycetes Ordo: Trypetheliales

Familia: Polycoccaceae
Genus: Polycoccum
Species: Polycoccum microstictum

Name

Polycoccum microstictum (Leight.) Arnold, 1891

Life habit: Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens)   (on Acarospora and possibly Buellia and Rhizocarpon)

Basionym

• Verrucaria microstictica Leight., 1871

References

Primary

• Arnold, Ber. bayer. bot. Ges. 1 (Anhang): 132 (1891)

• Arnold, F. (1891) Zur Lichenenflora von München. Berichte der Bayerischen Botanischen Gesellschaft 1 (suppl.): 1–147.

Secondary

• Lawrey, J.D. and Diederich, P. (2010) Lichenicolous fungi – worldwide checklist, including isolated cultures and sequences available. Internet (1/12/2011)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

English: Polycoccum lichen