Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caliciales 

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

Familia: Caliciaceae
Genus: Dimelaena
Species: Dimelaena californica

Name

Dimelaena californica (H. Magn.) Sheard, 1974


Life habit: Typically parasitic on Dimelaena radiata and other crustose species and eventually replacing them.

World distribution: Southwestern coastal North America

Basionym: Rinodina californica H. Magn., Acta Horti Gothob. 3: 16 (1927)

References

Primary references

  • Sheard, Bryologist 77: 131 (1974)

Additional references

  • Knudsen, K.; Sheard, J.W.; Kocourková, J. and Mayrhofer, H. 2013: A new lichenicolous lichen from Europe and western North America in the genus Dimelaena (Physciaceae). The Bryologist 116(3): 257–262. (doi: 10.1639/0007-2745-116.3.257)
  • Mayrhofer, H. and Sheard, J.W. (2004) Dimelaena (pp. 93-97) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages.   (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25890 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Dimelaena californica and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 94)

Vernacular names

English: California mountain lichen
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