Myriotrema wightii

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Diploschistaceae
Genus: Myriotrema
Species: Myriotrema wightii

Name

Myriotrema wightii (Taylor) Hale, 1980

Basionym

• Endocarpon wightii Taylor, 1847

Synonyms

• Endocarpon baileyi Stirt., Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria 17: 74 (1881)
• Endocarpon wightii Taylor, London J. Bot. 6: 155 (1847)
• Leptotrema baileyi (Stirt.) Shirley, Proc. R. Soc. Qd. 6: 194 (1889)
• Leptotrema wightii (Taylor) Müll.Arg., Flora, Regensburg 65: 499 (1882)
• Phaeotrema wightii (Taylor) Zahlbr., in Magnusson & Zahlbruckner, Ark. Bot. 31A: 48 (1944)
• Thelotrema wightii (Taylor) Nyl., Mém. Soc. natn. Sci. nat. math. Cherbourg 5: 118 (1857)

References

Primary

• Hale, Mycotaxon 11(1): 135 (1980)

• Hale, M.E., Jr. (1980) Generic delimitation in the lichen family Thelotremataceae. - Mycotaxon 11: 130–138.   **[RLL List # 107-32 / Rec.# 7486] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Web site)

Secondary

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Myriotrema (p. 449) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.   **[RLL List # 184 / Rec.# 22465] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (Myriotrema wightii: Key to the Species, p. 449)

Links

• USDA Plants Database

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Link to photo

• Pictures of tropical lichens - Myriotrema wightii'

Vernacular names

English: Wight's myriotrema lichen