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mycoporum lichen
Scientific Name: Mycoporum pycnocarpoides
Family: Mycoporaceae
Category: Lichen
Growth: Lichenous
Duration:
Other Names:
Mycoporum Lichen
This page provides information about the lichen genus Mycoporum.
Common Names
- Mycoporum Lichen
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Scientific Name: Mycoporum
- Family: Mycoporaceae
- Synonyms:
- Mycoporum Flotow ex Nylander, 1855
- Mycoporum Flot. ex Nyl.
- Mycoporellum sparsellum auct. brit. p.max.p.
- Tomasellia lactea
Distribution and Habitat
- Found in various locations including:
- Dorset, Britain and Ireland
- Taiwan
- UK
- USA and Canada
- Brazil (Parana)
- Costa Rica
- Florida
- Sri Lanka
- Azores
- Australia
- Bermuda
- Mycoporum lacteum is crustose epiphytic, often found on Pistacia lentiscus near the coast.
- Found on tree bark.
Morphological Characteristics
- Ascomata immersed in the soil thallus.
- In Mycoporum acervatum, the perethecia are frequently joined or compound, but each perethecium has its own opening.
- Mycoporum lacteum has uniseptated, colorless spores.
- Crustose lichens with mazaedial fruiting bodies (Mycoporum californicum).
Ecology
- Epiphytic lichen genus frequently found on trees.
- Ecological continuity indices for woodland epiphytic lichens utilize Mycoporum antecellens.
Interactions with Other Organisms
- Laeviomyces fallaciosus, a lichenicolous coelomycete, can be found in association with Mycoporum sparsellum.
Further Information
- Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol 1. Tempe, AZ.
- British Lichen Society (BLS) Mapping Scheme dataset.
- Centre for Environmental Data and Recording · Northern Ireland Lichen Survey.
- North American Lichen Checklist.
- Australian New Crops Web Site.