Staurothele

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Eurotiomycetes
Subclassis: Chaetothyriomycetidae
Ordo: Verrucariales
Familia: Verrucariaceae
Genus: Staurothele
Species: S. arctica - S. areolata - S. bacilligera - S. caesia - S. clopima - S. clopimoides - S. discedens - S. drummondii - S. effigurata - S. elenkinii - S. fissa - S. frustulenta - S. fuscocuprea - S. guestphalica - S. hymenogonia - S. lecideoides - S. monicae - S. moreliiensis - S. orispruinosa - S. pallidipora - S. polygonia - S. rufa - S. rugosa - S. rugulosa - S. rupifraga - S. succedens - S. tenuissima - S. verruculosa

Name

Staurothele Norman, 1852

Family: Verrucariaceae

Life habit: Lichenized

Type species: Staurothele fuscocuprea

Synonyms

Goidanichia Tomas. & Cif., Arch. Bot. (Forlì) 28: 9 (1952)
Goidanichiomyces Cif. & Tomas., Atti Ist. bot. Univ. Lab. crittog. Pavia, Ser. 5 10(1): 28, 56 (1953)
Paraphysorma A. Massal., Ric. auton. lich. crost. (Verona): 116 (1852)
Phalostauris Clem., Gen. fung. (Minneapolis): 39, 173 (1909)
Polyblastiomyces E.A. Thomas, 1939
Sphaeromphale A. Massal., 1854
Stigmatomma Körb., Syst. lich. germ. (Breslau): 337 (1855)
Willeya Müll. Arg., Flora, Jena 66: 345 (1883)

References

Norman, Nytt Mag. Naturvid.. 7: 240 (1853)

Purvis, O.W and James, P.W. (1992) Staurothele Norman, 1853 (pp. 572-575) 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.

Thomson, J.W. (1991) The lichen genus Staurothele in North America. - The Bryologist 94(4): 351-367. (Recent Literature on Lichens) (First page)

Thomson, J.W. (1997) Staurothele Norman (pp. 590-597) In, American Arctic Lichens: 2. The Microlichens. The University of Wisconsin Press, 675 pages. (Recent Literature on Lichens) (Books.Google)

Thomson, J.W. (2002) Staurothele (pp. 468-472) In: Nash III, T.H.; Ryan, B.D.; Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages. (Recent Literature on Lichens)

Thomson, J.W. (2003) Staurothele Norman (pp. 219-221) In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. [1]

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Vernacular names
English: Rock pimples, Wart lichens