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Phaeophyscia leana (Tuck.) Essl.

Lea's bog lichen

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Physcia leana Tuck. (basionym)

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered (Skorepa, 1984)

 

Distribution

Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio & Tennessee, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Gillespie, R. N. and Methven, A. S. (2002) Phaeophyscia leana — A lichen species at the edge. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 95: 77.

Hansen, Curtis J. and Lendemer, James C. (2019). The First Report of the Rare Lichen Species Phaeophyscia leana (Physciaceae) from Alabama. Evansia 36(1): 1-4. [Abstract]

Kelso, Neal and Hansen, Curtis J. (2020). Discovery of the first large population of Phaeophyscia leana in northern Alabama. Opuscula Philolichenum 19: 174-179.

Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission. (2010). Rare and Extirpated Biota and Natural Communitiesof Kentucky. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 71(1): 67-81.

Lendemer, J. C. (2009). Another record of the rare and endangered species Phaeophyscia leana. Evansia 26(3): 142-143.

Lendemer, J. C. (2020). Phaeophyscia leana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T80703017A80703024. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T80703017A80703024.en. Accessed on 07 April 2022.

Skorepa, A.C. (1984). The rediscovery of Phaeophyscia leana. The Bryologist 87: 257.

Thomson, J. W. (1963). The lichen genus Physcia in North America. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 8: 172.

Wilhelm, G. and Masters, L. (1994). The Current Status of Phaeophyscia leana (Tuckerman) Esslinger in Illinois. Illinois Department of Conservation.

Wilhelm, G., Masters, L. and Shimp, J. (2000) The Illinois populations of Phaeophyscia leana, one of the world’s rarest lichens. Erigenia 18: 66-74.

https://lichenportal.org/cnalh/taxa/index.php?taxon=67365

 

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