Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Arthoniales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Arthoniomycetes
Ordo: Arthoniales

Familia: Lecanographaceae
Genus: Plectocarpon
Species: Plectocarpon nashii

Name

Plectocarpon nashii Hafellner, 2002

Lichenicolous fungus (parasite on living lichens).

Location/host: California, on Niebla robusta.

Etymology: Named to honor Dr. Thomas Hawkes Nash III.

References

  • Hafellner, J., Triebel, D., Ryan, B.D. and Nash, T.H., III (2002) On lichenicolous fungi from North America. II. - Mycotaxon 84: 293–329.
  • Ertz, D. and Diederich, P. (2007) Plectocarpon (pp. 402-403) 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. (Description of P. nashii: p. 403)
  • Ertz, D., Christnach, C., Wedin, M. and Diederich, P. (2005) A world monograph of the genus Plectocarpon (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales) Bibliotheca Lichenologica No. 91. J. Cramer, Berlin & Stuttgart. 155 pp. (Plectocarpon nashii: p. 73)
  • Index of Fungi 7: 512
  • Fungorum

Vernacular names

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