Ephebe

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lichinomycetes
Ordo: Lichinales
Familia: Lichinaceae
Genus: Ephebe
Species: E. americana - E. brasiliensis - E. epheboides - E. fruticosa - E. hispidula - E. japonica - E. lanata - E. mamillosa - E. multispora - E. ocellata - E. orthogonia - E. perspinulosa - E. solida - E. tasmanica - E. trachytera

Name

Ephebe Fr., 1825

Family: Lichinaceae

Type: Ephebe lanata (L.) Vain., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 14: 20 (1888)

Life habit: Lichenized

Synonyms

* Ephebeia Nyl., Flora 58: 6 (1875)
* Spilonematopsis E. Dahl, Meddel. om Grønland 150(2): 34 (1950)

References

* Fr., Syst. orb. veg. (Lundae) 1: 256 (1825)

* Fries, E. (1825) Systema Orbis Vegetabilis. Primas lineas novae constrictionis periclitatur Elias Fries. Pars I. Plantae homonemeae. - Lundae. 1-369 (-374) pp. (Mattick's Literature Index) (PDF file)

* Foucard, T. (1990) Svensk Skorplavs Flora. - Interpublishing, Stockholm. 306 pp. (Recent Literature on Lichens)

* Henssen, A. (1963) Eine Revision der Flechtenfamilien Lichinaceae und Ephebaceae. - Symbolae Bot. Upsalienses 18(1): 1-123. (Recent Literature on Lichens)

* Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Ephebe Fr., 1825 (pp. 242-244) In, The Macrolichens of New England. - Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden No. 96. New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, New York. 584 pp.

* McCune, B. and Goward, T. (1995) Macrolichens of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Eureka: Mad River Press, 208 p.

* Schultz, M. (2004) Ephebe (pp. 105-107) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Diederich, P.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 742 pages.

* Schultz, M. and Büdel, B. (2002) Key to the genera of the Lichinaceae. - Lichenologist 34(1): 39-62. (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Abstract)

* Thomson, J.W. (1984) Ephebe Fr., (pp. 223-226). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages.

* USDA Plants Database

* Index Fungorum

Vernacular names
English: Shag lichens, Thread lichens