Usnea erinacea

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Usnea
Species: Usnea erinacea

Name

Usnea erinacea Vain., 1926

Substrate and ecology: On bark of Quercus.

Synonymy

• Usnea sanguinea Swinscow & Krog   (Source: Clerc, 2007)

References

• Vainio, Dansk Botanisk Archiv. 4: 3 (1926)

• Vainio, E.A. (1926) Lichenes Mexicani a F.M. Liebmann a. 1841-43 collecti, in museo Hauniensi asservati. Dansk botanisk Arkiv\Dansk Bot. Arkiv 4: 1–25.   (Mattick Rec.# 22908 - Mattick's Index on Lichens)

• Clerc, P. (2007) Usnea (pp. 302-335) 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.   (RLL List # 210 / Rec.# 29910 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Description of U. erinacea: p. 316)

• Swinscow, T.D. and Krog, H. (1979) The fruticose species of Usnea subgenus Usnea in East Africa. Lichenologist 11: 207–252.   (RLL List # 105-86 / Rec.# 18084 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (DOI: 10.1017/S0024282979000293) (Illustrations of U. erinacea: figs. 16 & 17)

• Truong, C.; Bungartz, F. and Clerc, P. (2011) The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in the tropical Andes and the Galapagos: species with a red-orange cortical or subcortical pigmentation. The Bryologist 114(3): 477–503.   (RLL List # 225 / Rec.# 33315 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-114.3.477) (JSTOR) (Discussion of Usnea erinacea: pp. 488-489)

• USDA Plants Database

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

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

English: Beard lichen