Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans

Taxonavigation[edit]

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

Familia: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Rhizoplaca
Species: Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans

Name[edit]

Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans (Nyl.) R. Sant., 1984

Substrate and ecology: On basalt, rhyolite, granite, and sanstone (including calciferous types); on exposed, dry, steep surfaces (in northern areas often south-facing), in pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands, and in pine forests

World distribution: Chemotypes containing placodiolic acid (+/- other substances) occur in warm-temperate to boreal-arctic areas of Asia, Europe, and western North America; psoromic or rarely lecanoric acid occurs in some specimens (including ones from Arizona, but from some northern localities)

Basionym

Squamaria chrysoleuca var. subdiscrepans Nyl., Flora 44: 716 (1861)

Synonyms[edit]

Lecanora subdiscrepans (Nyl.) Stizenb.

References[edit]

R. Sant., Lichens of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm): 278 (1984)

Santesson, R. (1984) The Lichens of Sweden and Norway. - Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. 333 pp. (RLL List # 121-77 / Rec. # 16281 - Recent Literature on Lichens)

Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Rhizoplaca (pp. 638-641) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (RLL List # 184 / Rec. # 22465 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans and distribution map for North America: p. 641; color photo: p. 641, plate 783)

Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Rhizoplaca Zopf, 1905 (pp. 444-445) 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. (RLL List # 210 / Rec. # 30032 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans: pp. 444-445; color photo: p. 444, fig. 283)

Ryan, B.D. (2002) Rhizoplaca (pp. 442-448) 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. (RLL List # 187 / Rec. # 23123 - Recent Literature on Lichens) (Discussion of Rhizoplaca subdiscrepans: pp. 447-448; distribution map for the Sonoran region: p. 448; black-and-white photo: p. 448, fig. 93)