Verrucaria nigrescens

Verrucaria nigrescens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Eurotiomycetes Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae Ordo: Verrucariales

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Verrucaria
Species: Verrucaria nigrescens
Formae: V. n. f. nigrescens  - V. n. f. tectorum

Name

Verrucaria nigrescens Pers., 1795

Synonyms

• Lithocia nigrescens (Pers.) A.Massal., 1853
  
• Pyrenula nigrescens (Pers.) Ach., 1814
  
• Trichothecium nigrescens (Pers.) Flot., 1849
  
• Verrucaria controversa A.Massal.
  
• Verrucaria fuscoatra Pers.
  
• Zschackea nigrescens (Pers.) M.Choisy & Werner, 1932

References

• Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 14: 36 (1795)

• Persoon, C.H. (1795) Botanische Beobachtungen. Usteri Annal. der Bot. 14: 33.

• Breuss, O. (2007) Verrucaria (pp. 335-377). 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 V. nigrescens: pp. 366-67; color photo in central section of Vol. III)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Verrucaria (pp. 399-408) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description of V. nigrescens: pp. 407-408; color photo, map, and sketch of perithecium: p. 408)

• Fröberg, L. (1989) The calcicolous lichens on the Great Alvar of Öland, Sweden, Lunds Universitet. 110 pp. (Illustration of V. nigrescens: p. 89)

• Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) Verrucaria (pp. 630-642) In, The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (V. nigrescens: pp. 639-40)

• Thomson, J.W. (1997) Verrucaria (pp. 629-645). In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (Description of V. nigrescens: pp. 640 & 643; illustration of perithecium & map: p. 642)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Verrucaria (pp. 241-244). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (V. nigrescens: p. 244)

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Verrucaria (pp. 374-389) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages. (Description of V. nigrescens: p. 386; color photo: p. 387)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Verrucaria (pp. 953-969 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp. (V. nigrescens: p. 967)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist (May 2008)

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Links to photos

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Verrucaria nigrescens

• Stephen Sharnoff's Lichen Photos -Verrucaria nigrescens

• Flechtenbilder (Lichen Images) by Ulrich Kirschbaum - Verrucaria nigrescens

• Irish lichens (photos and descriptions) - Verrucaria nigrescens

Vernacular names

English: Wart lichen
Nederlands: gewone stippelkorst