Polysporina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acarosporales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Acarosporomycetidae
Ordo: Acarosporales

Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Polysporina
Species: P. cyclocarpa P. dubia P. ferruginea P. frigida P. gyrocarpa P. lapponica P. oligospora P. pusilla P. simplex P. sinensis P. subfuscescens P. terricola P. urceolata

Name

Polysporina Vĕzda, 1978

Type species: Polysporina simplex (Davies) Vĕzda, 1978

Life habit: Lichenized or lichenicolous.

References

  • Vĕzda, Folia geobot. phytotax bohemoslov. 13: 399 (1978).
  • Vezda, A. (1978) Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II. - Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 13: 397–420.
  • Kantvilas, G. (1998) Notes on Polysporina Vĕzda, with a description of a new species from Tasmania. Lichenologist 30: 551–562.
  • Knudsen, K. (2005) Polysporina lapponica in southern California. Opuscula Philolichenum 2: 17–20.
  • Knudsen, K. (2007) Polysporina (pp. 276-278) 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.
  • Magnusson, A.H. (1952) New crustaceous lichen species from North America. Acta Horti Gotoburg. 19: 31–49.
  • Purvis, O.W., Coppins B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Nat. Hist. Mus. Pub./Br. Lich. Soc., 710 pp.
  • USDA Plants Database
  • Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index

Vernacular names

  • English: Coal-dust lichens;   Polysporina lichen