Polysporina cyclocarpa

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Polysporina
Species: Polysporina cyclocarpa

Name

Polysporina cyclocarpa (Anzi) Vĕzda, 1978

Substrate and ecology: On sandstone, gneiss, and carbonaceous rock.

Basionym

• Lithographa cyclocarpa Anzi, 1860

Synonyms

• Acarospora cyclocarpa (Anzi) Jatta, 1900
• Biatorella cyclocarpa (Anzi) Lindau
• Lecanora cyclocarpa (Anzi) J.Steiner, 1905
• Sarcogyne cyclocarpa (Anzi) J.Steiner

References

• Vĕzda, Folio geobot. phytotax. bohemoslov. 13: 399 (1978)

• Vezda, A. (1978) Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II. - Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 13: 397–420.

• Galloway, D.J. and Coppins, B.J. (1992) Polysporina (pp. 487-488) 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 P. cyclocarpa: p. 488)

• Knudsen, K. (2007) Polysporina (pp. 276-278) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages. (Description of P. cyclocarpa: pp. 276-277; distribution map for the Sonoran Desert Region: p. 277)

• Knudsen, K; Lendemer, J.C. and Harris, R.C. (2011) Studies in lichens and lichenicolous fungi – no 15: miscellaneous notes on species from eastern North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 9: 45–75. (PDF document) (Discussion of Polysporina cyclocarpa: p. 63; color photos: p. 64, Fig. 8E & F) [Polysporina cyclocarpa is reported for the first time from continental North America (Connecticut, Missouri, New York, and West Virginia)].

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Link to photo

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Polysporina cyclocarpa