Scutula

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae
Ordo: Lecanorales
Familia: Ramalinaceae
Genus: Scutula
Species: S. cladoniicola - S. dedicata - S. epiblastematica - S. krempelhuberi - S. miliaris - S. nephromatis - S. pseudocyphellariae - S. stereocaulorum - S. tuberculosa

Name

Scutula Tul., 1852

Classification: Order: Lecanorales; Family: Uncertain. (Source: Triebel and Kainz, 2004)

Type: Icon of Scutula wallrothii in Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér.3, 17: t. 14, f. 14-24 (1852), typ. cons.

Life habit: Lichenicolous.

References

Tul., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 3, 17: 118 (1852) nom. cons.

Tulasne, L-R. (1852) Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire organographique et physiologique des lichens. - Annales des Sciences Naturelles 17: 5-128, 153-249.

Alstrup, V. and Hawksworth, D.L. (1990) The lichenicolous fungi of Greenland. - Meddelelser om Gronland, Bioscience 31: 1-90.

Hafellner, J., Triebel, D., Ryan, B.D., Nash III, T.H. (2000) On lichenicolous fungi from North America. II. Mycotaxon 84: 293-329. [1]

Hansen, E.S. and Alstrup, V. (1995) The lichenicolous fungi on Cladonia subgenus Cladina in Greenland. Graphis Scripta 7: 33-38.

Martínez Moreno, M.I. (1999) Taxonomía del Género Peltigera Willd. (Ascomycetes Liquenizados) en la Península Ibérica y Estudio de sus Hongos Liquenícolas. - Ruizia. Monografías del Real Jardín Botánico, 15, Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid. 200 pp.

Rambold, G. and Triebel, D. (1992) The Interlecanoralean Associations. Bibl. Lichenol. 48: 1-201.

Triebel, D. and Kainz, C. (2004) Scutula (pp. 692-693) 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.

Triebel, D., Wedin, M. and Rambold, G. (1997) The genus Scutula (lichenicolous ascomycetes, Lecanorales): species on the Peltigera canina and P. horizontalis groups. - In: Tibell, L. and Hedberg, I. (eds.): Lichen Studies Dedicated to Rolf Santesson. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, pp. 323-337.

Wedin, M., Ihlen, P.G. and Triebel, D. (2007) Scutula tuberculosa, the correct name of the Scutula growing on Solorina spp., with a key to Scutula s. str. in the Northern Hemisphere. Lichenologist 39: 329-333. [2]

USDA Plants Database

Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index

Vernacular names
English: Scutula lichen