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catillaria lichen

Scientific Name: Catillaria subnegans

Family: Catillariaceae

Category: Lichen

Growth: Lichenous

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Catillaria Lichen

The genus Catillaria encompasses a variety of crustose lichens. This page provides information compiled from various sources about Catillaria species.

Considerations for Pets

  • Some Catillaria species may appear as tiny black dots.

Scientific Classification

  • Genus: Catillaria A. Massal.
  • Kingdom: Fungi (inferred from text mentioning "lichen-forming fungi")
  • Family: Catillariaceae (explicitly mentioned in one instance)

Common Names

  • Catillaria Lichen

Nomenclature and Synonyms

  • Synonyms for Catillaria stereocaulorum: Scutula stereocaulorum
  • Catillaria nigroclavata is a synonym for: Bacidia declinis, Bilimbia declinis, and Lecidea declinis.
  • Synonym for Catillaria chalybeia: Catillaria chalybeia (Borrer) Massal.
  • Synonym for Catillaria subnitida Hellbom: Catillaria tristis (Mll. Arg.) Arnold

Morphological Characteristics

  • Some species appear as tiny black dots on a dark grey or dark olivaceous background.
  • The apothecia (fruiting bodies) are very small, sometimes only 0.15 mm.
  • Thallus of Catillaria chalybeia is crustose, 2-5 cm in diameter.

Distribution and Habitat

  • Found in the Greater Sonoran Desert.
  • Observed in Dorset, Britain and Ireland.
  • Some species are found in montane lichen vegetation.
  • Catillaria corymbosa is endemic to maritime Antarctic regions.
  • Species have been identified in India and Turkey.
  • Mention of collections from Taiwan, the Aegean, and Cape Verde
  • Catillaria lenticularis is found on rock.
  • Catillaria chalybeia is ubiquitous.
  • Some species grow on marine and maritime rocks.
  • Some species are epiphytic, growing on trees in systematic woodlands.

Ecological Role

  • Some Catillaria species grow on the leaves of Nestegis apetala.
  • Catillaria corymbosa usually occurs on exposed, rocky bird perches in maritime Antarctic regions.

Quirky Facts

  • One species, Catillaria corymbosa, is found on rocky bird perches in the Antarctic.

Further Information

  • Refer to the Greater Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora (Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2001).
  • See "Catillaria" (pp. 220-226) in Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the.
  • British Lichen Society - BLS Lichen Database.
  • Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual.
  • http://www.stridvall.se/lichens/gallery/Catillaria?page=1