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This category contains articles related to the native lichens of North America. For the purposes of this category, "North America" excludes Central America and the Caribbean. For the purposes of this category, "North America" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it ...
Montanelia panniformis has a circumboreal distribution in Asia, Europe, and North America. [8] It is widely distributed in Europe, having been reported in 23 countries there. [9] [10] In North America, its scattered range extends north to Alaska and the Northwest Territories. [2] It is known from a single location in Baja California, Mexico. [8]
Enchylium polycarpon, commonly known as the shaly jelly lichen, is a species of foliose lichen in the family Collemataceae. Formerly known as Collema polycarpon, it was renamed in 2013 following a taxonomic revision. This lichen has a widespread global distribution, occurring in various regions of North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Usnea filipendula – one of about 20,000 described species of lichen. The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to lichens.. Lichen – composite organism made up of multiple species – a fungal partner, one or more photosynthetic partners, which can be either green algae or cyanobacteria, and, in at least 52 genera of lichens, a yeast. [1]
An example reference work is Lichens of North America (2001) by Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Sharnoff and Stephen Sharnoff and that book's 2016 expansion, Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded by the same three authors joined by Susan Laurie-Bourque. [1]
An example of this lichen-yeast symbiosis is the North American beard-like lichens. [ 51 ] The lichen combination of alga or cyanobacterium with a fungus has a very different form (morphology), physiology, and biochemistry than the component fungus, alga, or cyanobacterium growing by itself, naturally or in culture.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... commonly known as the boreal cup lichen, [1] ... North American Lichen Checklist;