Dimelaena thysanota

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Caliciales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Fungi Subregnum: Dikarya Divisio: Ascomycota Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina Classis: Lecanoromycetes Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae Ordo: Caliciales

Dimelaena thysanota (Tuck.) Hale & W.L. Culb., 1970

Life habit: Lichenized

Substrate and ecology: On acidic rocks at high altitudes

World distribution: Western North America from California to southern British Columbia

Basionym: Rinodina thysanota Tuck., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 12: 174 (1877)

Hale, M.E., Jr. and Culberson, W.L. (1970) A fourth checklist of the lichens of the continental United States and Canada. - The Bryologist 73: 499–543. (RLL List # 77 / Rec. # 7370 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR)

Knudsen, K.; Sheard, J.W.; Kocourková, J. and Mayrhofer, H. 2013: A new lichenicolous lichen from Europe and western North America in the genus Dimelaena (Physciaceae). The Bryologist 116(3): 257–262. (doi: 10.1639/0007-2745-116.3.257) (Dimelaena thysanota, host of Dimelaena lichenicola)

Mayrhofer, H. and Sheard, J.W. (2004) Dimelaena (pp. 93-97) 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. (RLL List # 196 / Rec. # 25890 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Dimelaena thysanota and distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 96)

Sheard, J.W. (1974) The genus Dimelaena in North America north of Mexico. - The Bryologist 77: 128–141. (RLL List # 90 / Rec. # 17195 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (JSTOR) (Illustration of Dimelaena thysanota: p. 137)

English: Mountain lichen