Sporopodium xantholeucum

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Byssolomataceae
Genus: Sporopodium
Species: Sporopodium xantholeucum

Name

Sporopodium xantholeucum (Müll. Arg.) Zahlbr., 1924

Substrate: On leaves in rather exposed situations in tropical and subtropical wet and moist forests.

Basionym

• Gyalectidium xantholeucum Müll. Arg., Flora, Jena 64: 101 (1881)   (Brasilia, foliicola)

Synonyms

• Sporopodium mastocheilum Vain.   (Source: Lücking 2004)
• Sporopodium pilosellum Vain.   (Source: Lücking 2004)
• Sporopodium thaxteri Vain.   (Source: Lücking 2004)
• Sporopodium glaucophaeopsis Vain.   (Source: Lücking 2004)
• Acleistomyces zollerniae Bat. & J.A. Lima, in Bastista   (Source: Lücking 2004)

References

• Zahlbr., Cat. Lich. Univers. 2: 681 (1924)

• Zahlbruckner, A. Catalogus Lichenum Universalis 2, 1923-1924, page 681
  • Sporopodium xantholeucum Zahlbr.

• Lücking, R. (1992) Foliicolous lichens - A contribution to the knowledge of the lichen flora of Costa Rica, Central America. Beih. Nova Hedwigia 104: 1–179   (RLL List # / Rec. # 10791 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Illustration of Sporopodium xantholeucum: p. 153)

• Lücking, R. (2004) Sporopodium (pp. 509-511) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25960 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Sporopodium xantholeucum: p. 510-511)

• Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories (List S)

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Sporopodium xantholeucum

• Australian Biological Resources Study (Lichen Photos) - Sporopodium xantholeucum