Icmadophila

Icmadophila
Icmadophila ericetorum growing on a rotten log on Meares Island, west coast of Canada.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Pertusariales
Family: Icmadophilaceae
Genus: Icmadophila
Trevis. (1852)
Type species
Icmadophila aeruginosa
(Scop.) Trevis. (1852)
Species

I. adversum
I. aversa
I. coronata
I. elveloides
I. ericetorum
I. eucalypti
I. splachnirima

Icmadophila is a genus of crustose lichen. The genus has a widespread distribution in the Northern Hemisphere and contains six species.[1] The only species found in North America, Icmadophila ericetorus, has a mint green crustose thallus that is dotted with bright pink apothecial disks, and is sometimes affectionately referred to as fairy puke.[2] It aggressively grows over mosses on well-rotted wood and peat.[3] It looks very distinctive, but may be confused with species of Dibaeis.

References

  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 337. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Vitt, D, J Marsh, and R Bovey. 1994. Mosses, lichens, and ferns of northwest North America. Lone Pine Publishing.
  3. Brodo, I. M., S. D. Sharnoff, and S. Sharnoff. 2001. Lichens of North America. Yale University Press: New Haven.

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