Usnea hirta subsp. hirta

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 hirta
Subspecies: Usnea hirta subsp. hirta

Name

Usnea hirta subsp. hirta (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg., 1780

Basionym: Lichen hirtus L., 1753

Synonyms

• Usnea variolosa Motyka
• Lichen hirtus L., 1753
• Usnea florida f. minutissima Mereschk., 1913
• Usnea florida f. villosa (Ach.) Zahlbr., 1930
• Usnea florida var. hirta (L.) DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle, 1805
• Usnea florida var. villosa Ach., 1810
• Usnea hesperina f. minutissima (Mereschk.) Erichsen, 1944
• Usnea hesperina subsp. comiformis (Motyka) Motyka, 1936
• Usnea hirta var. comiformis Motyka ex Räsänen
• Usnea hirta var. minutissima (Mereschk.) Cretz.
• Usnea hirta var. villosa (Ach.) Räsänen
• Usnea plicata var. hirta (L.) Ach., 1810

References

• Prim. fl. holsat. (Kiliae): 91 (1780)
• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Usnea (pp. 709-726) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 720-721; distribution map for North America: p. 720; color photo: p. 720, plate 887)
• 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. (Description of U. hirta: p. 321)
• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Usnea (pp. 389-398) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description, distribution map, and color photo of U. hirta: p. 397)
• Halonen, P., Clerc, P., Goward, T., Brodo, I.M. and Wulff, K. (1998) Synopsis of the genus Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) in British Columbia, Canada. The Bryologist 101(1): 36–60. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 51-52; black-and-white photo: p. 39, fig. 9, tall isidia; distribution map for British Columbia: p. 43, fig. 20) [1]
• James, P.W., Clerc, P. and Purvis, O.W. (1992) Usnea (pp. 620-629) 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. (Description of U.hirta: pp. 627-628)
• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Usnea (pp. 204-207) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 206-207; color photo: p. 206)
• Thomson, J.W. (1984) Usnea (pp. 461-470). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 464 & 467; distribution map for the Arctic: p. 466; illustration of thallus: p. 467)
• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Usnea (pp.235-241). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of U. hirta: p. 238)
• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Usnea (pp. 372-375) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 372 & 374; color photo: p. 373)
• Wirth, V. (1995) Usnea (pp. 940-953 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 949 & 951; color photo: p. 949)
• Recent literature on lichens
• North American Lichen Checklist
• List of British lichens and lichenicolous fungi
• Checklist to Norwegian lichens
• Brodo, Sharnoff and Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America
• USDA Plants Database

Vernacular names

English: Bristly beard lichen;   Shaggy beard lichen,   Beard lichen
Nederlands: Bleek baardmos