Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucariales 

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

Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Catapyrenium
Species: Catapyrenium squamellum

Name

Catapyrenium squamellum (Nyl.) J.W. Thomson, 1987


Substrate and ecology: Over soil or acid rocks and among mosses

World distribution: Know only from SW North America and the West Indies

Basionym
  • Verrucaria squamella Nyl., in Hasse, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 449 (1897)

Synonymy

  • Dermatocarpon squamellum (Nyl.) Herre, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 12(2): 44 (1910)

References

  • J.W. Thomson, Bryologist 90(1): 36 (1987)
  • Thomson, J.W. (1987) The lichen genera Catapyrenium and Placidiopsis in North America. - The Bryologist 90: 27–39.   **[RLL List # 131 / Rec.# 18497] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (JSTOR) (Illustration of Catapyreniuim squamellum: p. 30)

Vernacular names

English: Earth lichen
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