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Pyrenula micheneri Harris, 1989

Michener's wart lichen

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1893

Rediscovered in 1997 (source)

 

Distribution

Brazil (Rondônia), Canada (Ontario), Colombia & USA (North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania)

 

Has also been reported from Sri Lanka in Asia, but the disjunction involved seems enormous (Weerakoon & Aptroot, 2014). This record may need further scrutiny.

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Harris, R. C. (1989). A sketch of the family Pyrenulaceae (Melanommatales) in eastern North America. - Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 49: 74-107.


Other references:

Aptroot, André and Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia da Silva. (2013). Pyrenocarpous lichens (except Trypetheliaceae) in Rondônia. The Lichenologist 45(6): 763-785. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282913000534

Esslinger, T. L. (2018). A cumulative checklist for the lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada, Version 22. Opuscula Philolichenum 17: 6-268. [http://sweetgum.nybg.org/philolichenum/]

Esslinger, T. L. and Egan, R. S. (1995). A sixth checklist of the lichen-forming, lichenicolous, and allied fungi of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist 98(4): 467-549.

Weerakoon, G. and Aptroot, A. (2014). Over 200 new lichen records from Sri Lanka, with three new species to science. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 35(1): 51-62. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym.v35.iss1.2014.51

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/1875/pyrenula-micheneri

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.125799/Pyrenula_micheneri

https://www.gbif.org/species/5489743/metrics

https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pyrenula_micheneri

 

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