Polycauliona candelaria

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Polycauliona candelaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Polycauliona
Species:
P. candelaria
Binomial name
Polycauliona candelaria
(L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lichen candelarius L. (1753)
  • Xanthoria candelaria (L.) Th.Fr. (1861)
  • Teloschistes candelarius (L.) Fink (1935)

Polycauliona candelaria is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.[2] It was one of the first lichens formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. Since then, the taxon has acquired a long and extensive synonymy.[1] It was finally transferred to the genus Polycauliona by Ulf Arup and colleagues in 2013, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae.[3] In North America, one vernacular name is shrubby sunburst lichen.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 51 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  3. ^ Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
  4. ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.