Taxonavigation

Familia: Opegraphaceae
Genus: Opegrapha
Species: Opegrapha varia
Varietates: O. v. var. glomerulans – O. v. var. heterocarpa – O. v. var. phaea – O. v. var. pulicaris

Formae: O. v. f. varia - O. v. f. xanthocarpa

Name

Opegrapha varia Pers., 1794

Life habit: lichenized.

Substrate and ecology: on neutral, basic, rough, shaded bark, especially of deciduous trees.

References

• Roemer & Usteri: Bot. Mag. 1: 30
• Fungorum
• Zahlbruckner: Catalogus Lichenum Universalis 2: 253; 8: 196
• Persoon, C.H. (1794) Nähere Bestimmung und Beschreibung einiger sich nahe verwandten Pflanzen. Usteri Neue Annal. der Bot. 1: 30.
• Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Opegrapha (pp. 471-472) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages. (Description, color photo, and distribution map for N.A.: p. 472)
• Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Opegrapha (p. 246-251) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp. (Description, distribution map, color photo, and diagram of spore of O. varia: p. 248)
• Ertz, D. and Egea, J.M. (2007) Opegrapha (pp. 255-266) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages. (Description of O. varia: p. 265)
• Pentecost, A. and James, P.W. (1992) Opegrapha (pp. 404-415) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp. (Description of O. varia: p. 414; diagram of ascospores: p. 409, fig. 18c)
• Thomson, J.W. (2003) Opegrapha (pp. 155-156). In, Lichens of Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Herbarium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 386 pages. (Description of O. varia: p. 156)
• Torrente, P. and Egea, J.M. (1989) La Familia Opegraphaceae en al Area Mediterránea de la Península Ibérica y Norte de Africa. Bibl. Lichen. 32 1-282. (Illustration of O. varia: fig. 36)
• van Herk, K. and Aptroot, A. (2004) Opegrapha (pp. 266-275) In, Veldgids Korstmossen. Koninkliijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 423 pages; in Dutch. (Description of O. varia: p. 272; color photo: p. 273)
• Wirth, V. (1995) Opegrapha (pp. 620-629 - Teil 2) In, Die Flechten Baden-Württembergs, Teil 1 & 2. Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart. 1006 pp.; in German. (O. varia: p. 627-628; color photo: p. 627)
• LIAS
• USDA Plants Database
• North American Lichen Checklist (Aug 2008)

Vernacular names