Thelomma occidentale

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Thelomma
Species: Thelomma occidentale

Name

Thelomma occidentale (Herre) Tibell, 1976

Substrate and ecology: On wood, preferably fence posts, sea level to 600 meters

World distribution: Southern Alaska to California

Sonoran distribution: Southern California and Baja California

Basionym

• Cyphelium occidentale Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12: 62 (1910)

References

• Tibell, Bot. Notiser 129(3): 237 (1976)

• Tibell, L. (1976) The genus Thelomma. - Bot. Not. 129: 221–249.   (RLL List # 95 / Rec. # 18595 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

• Tibell, L. and Ryan, B.D. (2004) Thelomma (pp. 533-536) 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. # 25967 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Description of Thelomma occidentale: p. 535) (Color photo: in photo section of vol. 2)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Thelomma occidentale

• U.S Forest Service Lichen Photos - Thelomma occidentale

• California Lichen Society Photos - Thelomma occidentale

Vernacular names

English: Western thelomma lichen