Psorula rufonigra

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Psoraceae
Genus: Psorula
Species: Psorula rufonigra

Name

Psorula rufonigra (Tuck.) Gotth. Schneid., 1980

Life habit: Lichenized, lichenicolous

Substrate and ecology: On a filamentous cyanolichen (Spilonema revertens) over acidic rock in open habitats, up to 2350 m alt.

World distribution: Widely distributed in arid and semi-arid areas in the temperate region in the northern hemisphere

Basionym

• Biatora rufonigra Tuck., 1848

Homotypic synonyms

• Biatora rufonigra Tuck., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 1: 250 (1847)
• Lecidea rufonigra (Tuck.) Nyl., 1857
• Lecidea brouardii (B. de Lesd.) Zahlbr., 1939
• Psora rufonigra (Tuck.) A. Schneid., 1898

References

Primary references

• Gotth. Schneid., Biblthca Lichenol. 13: 136 (1980) [1979]

• Schneider, G. (1979) Die Flechtengattung Psora sensu Zahlbruckner. - Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 13 . J. Cramer, Vaduz. 291 pp.   **[RLL List # 106-85 / Rec.# 16661] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**

References

• Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Psorula (pp. 604-605) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22465] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Psorula rufonigra: pp. 604-605; distribution map for North America: p. 605; color photo: p. 605, plate 733 - Psorula rufronigra growing over Spilonema revertens)

• Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Psorula Gotth. Schneid., 1979 (pp. 426-427) 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)** (Discussion of Psorula rufonigra: pp. 426-427; color photo: p. 427, fig 270 - Psorula rufonigra on Spilonema revertens)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Psorula G. Schneider (pp. 514-515) In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages.   **[RLL List # 170 / Rec.# 18517] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Psorula rufonigra: p. 514; distribution map for the North American arctic: p. 515)

• Timdal, E. (2002) Psorula (pp. 434-435) 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.   **[RLL List # 187 / Rec.# 23120] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Discussion of Psorula rufonigra: pp. 434-435; black-and-white photo: p. 434, fig. 89; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 435)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

• Checklist of Japanese Lichens

• Checklist to Norwegian lichens

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

• Psorula rufonigra in Index Fungorum.

• Psorula rufonigra in MycoBank.

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Psorula rufonigra

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

• Discover Life; Photo copyright by Lucy Beeching - Psorula rufonigra

• Discover Life; Photo copyright by Lucy Beeching - Psorula rufonigra

• Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria; photo by Einar Timdal Psorula rufonigra

• Flickr Photo by Jason Hollinger - Spilonema revertens and Psorula rufonigra

• Flickr Photo by Jason Hollinger - Spilonema revertens and Psorula rufonigra

• Flechtengalerie of Matthias Schultz - Psorula rufonigra on Spilonema revertens

Vernacular names

English: Psorula lichen