Biology:Ephebe lanata

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Short description: Species of lichen-forming fungus

Ephebe lanata

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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lichinomycetes
Order: Lichinales
Family: Lichinaceae
Genus: Ephebe
Species:
E. lanata
Binomial name
Ephebe lanata
(L.) Vain. (1888)
Synonyms
  • Lichen lanatus L. (1753)

Ephebe lanata is a species of filamentous lichen in the family Lichinaceae, and the type species of the genus Ephebe. The lichen was first described as a new species by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Lichen lanatus.[2] Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio transferred it to Ephebe in 1888.[3] In North America, it is known colloquially as the "rockshag lichen".[4]

See also

  • List of lichens named by Carl Linnaeus

References

  1. NatureServe. "Ephebe lanata" (in en). Arlington, Virginia. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.122956/. 
  2. Linnaeus, Carl (1753) (in la). Species plantarum. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1155. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359176. 
  3. Vainio, E.A. (1888). "Notulae de synonymia lichenum" (in la). Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica 14: 20–30. 
  4. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4. 

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