Theodore Lee Esslinger (born 1944), U.S. botanist and lichenologist.

Professor at North Dakota State University. Mailing Address: (May 2014)

Dr. Theodore L. Esslinger

Dept. of Biological Sciences, #2715

North Dakota State University

PO Box 6050

Fargo, ND 58108 U.S.A

IPNI standard form: Essl.

Taxon names authored

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• 95 taxon names authored by Theodore Lee Esslinger

Eponyms

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• 1 eponyms of Theodore Lee Esslinger

Publications

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• Esslinger, T.L. 1973. Nomenclatural Notes on Some Members of Parmelia Section Melanoparmelia. The Bryologist 76(2): 306–309. RLL List # 86 / Rec.# 5202 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.2307/3241337 RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 1977. A Chemosystematic Revision of the Brown Parmeliae. The Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory 42: 1–211. RLL List # 100 / Rec.# 5205 – Recent Literature on Lichens Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 1978. A new status for the brown Parmeliae. Mycotaxon 7(1): 45–54. Cyberliber RLL Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 1978. Studies in the lichen family Physciaceae. II. The genus Phaeophyscia in North America. Mycotaxon 7(2): 283–320. RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 1986. Studies in the lichen family Physciaceae. VII. The new genus Physciella. Mycologia 78(1): 92–97. Cyberliber RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. & Bratt, C. 1998. The Heterodermia erinacea group in North America, and a remarkable new disjunct distribution. In Glenn, M.G., Harris, R.C., Dirig, R. & Cole, M.S., Lichenographia Thomsoniana: North American Lichenology in Honor of John W. Thomson.: 25–36. RLL List # 171 / Rec.# 5194 – Recent Literature on Lichens Mycotaxon Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 2000. Culbersonia americana, a Rare New Lichen (Ascomycota) from Western America. The Bryologist 103(4): 771–773. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0771:CAARNL]2.0.CO;2 . JSTOR . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 2002. Culbersonia. In Nash, Ryan, Gries & Bungartz (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 1 (The Pyrenolichens and most of the Squamulose and Macrolichens): 164–165. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L. 2003. Tuckermanella, a new cetrarioid genus in western North America. Mycotaxon 85: 135–141. RLL List # 191 / Rec.# 24618 – Recent Literature on Lichens Cyberliber Reference page. 
• Blanco, O., Crespo, A., Divakar, P.K., Esslinger, T.L., Hawksworth, D.L. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2004. Melanelixia and Melanohalea, two new genera segregated from Melanelia (Parmeliaceae) based on molecular and morphological data. Mycological Research 108(8): 873–884. RLL List # 197 / Rec.# 26150 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1017/S0953756204000723 RLL (PDF) Reference page. 
• Crespo, A., Kauff, F., Divakar, P.K., Del Prado, R., Pérez-Ortega, S., Amo de Paz, G., Ferencova, Z., Blanco, O., Roca-Valiente, B., Núñez-Zapata, J., Cubas, P., Argüello, A., Elix, J.A., Esslinger, T.L., Hawksworth, D.L., Millanes, A.M., Molina, M.C., Wedin, M., Ahti, T.T., Aptroot, A., Barreno, E., Bungartz, F., Calvelo, S., Candan, M., Cole, M.S., Ertz, D., Goffinet, B., Lindblom, L., Lücking, R., Lutzoni, F., Mattsson, J.-E., Messuti, M.I., Miądlikowska, J., Piercey-Normore, M., Rico, V.J., Sipman, H.J.M., Schmitt, I., Spribille, T., Thell, A., Thor, G., Upreti, D.K. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2010. Phylogenetic generic classification of parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) based on molecular, morphological and chemical evidence. Taxon 59(6): 1735–1753. DOI: 10.1002/tax.596008 JSTOR ResearchGate Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Hodkinson, B.P., Lendemer, J.C. & Esslinger, T.L. 2010. Parmelia barrenoae, a macrolichen new to North America and Africa. North American Fungi 5(3): 1–5. DOI: 10.2509/naf2010.005.003 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Divakar, P.K., Prado, R., Lumbsch, H.T., Wedin, M., Esslinger, T.L., Leavitt, S.D. & Crespo, A. 2012. Diversification of the newly recognized lichen-forming fungal lineage Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and its relation to key geological and climatic events. American Journal of Botany 99(12): 2014–2026. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200258 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Leavitt, S.D., Esslinger, T.L., Divakar, P.K., Crespo, A. & Lumbsch, H.T. 2016. Hidden diversity before our eyes: Delimiting and describing cryptic lichen-forming fungal species in camouflage lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota). Fungal Biology 120(11): 1374–1391. RLL List # 245 / Rec.# 38257 – Recent Literature on Lichens DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2016.06.001 Reference page. 
• Esslinger, T.L., McCune, B.P. & Haughland, D.L. 2017. Physconia labrata, a new species from western North America and Asia. The Bryologist 120(4): 427–434. DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-120.4.427 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

Links

• Homepage of T. L. Esslinger
• A Cumulative Checklist for the Lichen-forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of the Continental United States and Canada (Checklist maintained by Dr. Theodore L. Esslinger)