Thrombium epigaeum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Baeomycetales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Ostropomycetidae Order: Baeomycetales

Familia: Protothelenellaceae
Genus: Thrombium
Species: Thrombium epigaeum

Name

Thrombium epigaeum (Pers.) Wallr., 1831

World distribution: Widespread, often in holarctic regions of Eurasia, North and South America, and New Zealand

Basionym

• Sphaeria epigaea Pers., Synops. Method. Fung. Add.: 27 (1802)

Synonyms

• Inoderma epigaeum (Pers.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 498 (1821)
• Lichen terrestris Sm., Engl. Bot. 24: tab. 1681 (1807)
• Pyrenotea epigaea (Pers.) Spreng., 1832
• Sphaeria epigaea Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: xxvii (1801)
• Thrombium aoristoides I.M. Lamb, J. Bot., London 77: 72 (1939)
• Verrucaria epigaea (Pers.) Ach., 1803

References

Primary references

• Wallr., Flora Kryptog. Germ. 3: 294 (1831)

• Wallroth, F.W. (1831-1833) Flora cryptogamica Germaniae. - Norimbergae. 1-654 pp.   **[Mattick Rec. # 23017] - (Recent Literature on Lichens - Mattick No.)**   (PDF file)

References

• Breuss, O. (2002) Thrombium (pp. 483-484) 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.# 23143] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**  (Discussion of Thrombium epigaeum and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 484)

• Purvis, O.W (1992) Thrombium Wallr., 1831 (pp. 601-602) 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.   **[RLL List # 151 / Rec.# 15105] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Discussion of Thrombium epigaeum: p. 602)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Thrombium Wallr. (pp. 609-611) 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 Thrombium epigaeum: p. 611; black-and-white photo and distribution map for the American arctic: p. 610)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Thrombium (Pers.) Wallr. (pp. 227-228) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages.     **[RLL List # 190 / Rec.# 24161] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Discussion of Thrombium epigaeum: pp. 227-228)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Thrombium Wallr. (p. 906) - Teil 2 - In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German.   **[RLL List # 159 / Rec.# 20405] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)**   (Discussion of Thrombium epigaeum: p. 906)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Thrombium epigaeum in Index Fungorum.

• Thrombium epigaeum in MycoBank.

Links to Photos

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos - Thrombium epigaeum

• Lichen Photos by Felix Schumm - Thrombium epigaeum

Vernacular names

English: Thrombium lichen