Taxonavigation

Familia: Parmeliaceae
Subfamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Usnea
Species: Usnea hirta
Subspecies: U. h. subsp. hirta – U. h. subsp. trachista

Name

Usnea hirta (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg., 1780

Basionym

• Lichen hirtus L., 1753

Synonyms

• Usnea variolosa Motyka
• Lichen hirtus L., 1753
• Usnea florida f. minutissima Mereschk., 1913
• Usnea florida f. villosa (Ach.) Zahlbr., 1930
• Usnea florida var. hirta (L.) DC., in Lamarck & de Candolle, 1805
• Usnea florida var. villosa Ach., 1810
• Usnea hesperina f. minutissima (Mereschk.) Erichsen, 1944
• Usnea hesperina subsp. comiformis (Motyka) Motyka, 1936
• Usnea hirta var. comiformis Motyka ex Räsänen
• Usnea hirta var. minutissima (Mereschk.) Cretz.
• Usnea hirta var. villosa (Ach.) Räsänen
• Usnea plicata var. hirta (L.) Ach., 1810

References

• Weber ex F.H. Wigg., Prim. fl. holsat. (Kiliae): 91 (1780)

• Weber, G.H. (1780) . - In: Wiggers, F.H.: Primitiae Florae Holsatiae. Kiliae, pp.   (Mattick Rec.# 33145 - Mattick's Index on Lichens)

• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Usnea (pp. 709-726) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 720-721; distribution map for North America: p. 720; color photo: p. 720, plate 887)

• Clerc, P. (2007) Usnea (pp. 302-335) 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.   (RLL List # 210 / Rec.# 29910 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (Description of U. hirta: p. 321)

• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Usnea (pp. 389-398) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description, distribution map, and color photo of U. hirta: p. 397)

• Halonen, P., Clerc, P., Goward, T., Brodo, I.M. and Wulff, K. (1998) Synopsis of the genus Usnea (lichenized Ascomycetes) in British Columbia, Canada. The Bryologist 101(1): 36–60.   (RLL List # 170 / Rec.# 7545 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (PDF file) (JSTOR) (Description of U. hirta: pp. 51-52; black-and-white photo: p. 39, fig. 9, tall isidia; distribution map for British Columbia: p. 43, fig. 20)

• James, P.W., Clerc, P. and Purvis, O.W. (1992) Usnea (pp. 620-629) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 627-628)

• St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Usnea (pp. 204-207) In, A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 206-207; color photo: p. 206)

• Thomson, J.W. (1984) Usnea (pp. 461-470). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 464 & 467; distribution map for the Arctic: p. 466; illustration of thallus: p. 467)

• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Usnea (pp.235-241). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of U. hirta: p. 238)

• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Usnea (pp. 372-375) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 372 & 374; color photo: p. 373)

• Wirth, V. (1995) Usnea (pp. 940-953 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (Description of U. hirta: pp. 949 & 951; color photo: p. 949)

• USDA Plants Database

• North American Lichen Checklist, Version (#17) 16 May 2011

• of British Lichens & Lichenicolous Fungi}}

• Index Fungorum

• MycoBank

Vernacular names

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