Lichen Species Lists
I have photos of all the lichen species on the following lists. Please contact me by email at lichen@idiom.com if you wish to use any of them. Because the list has over 1,400 names, I have divided it into four sections. I also have many photos of other lichen-related subjects, such as how they color the landscape, or how lichens are used by animals and people.
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For the genera Acarospora through Cyphelium, scroll down through the list below.
Or you can go to more species:
Dactylina to Loxosporopsis
Maronia to Protoparmelia
Pseudephebe to Xylographa
Acarospora chlorophana
A. contigua (Roux, not published)
A. fuscata
A. glaucocarpa
A. heufleuriana
A. molybdina
A. nodulosa
A. nodulosa var. nodulosa
A. peliscypha
A. schleicheri
A. stapfiana (epiphytic on Xanthoria elegans)
A. strigata
A. thamnia
A. thelococcoides
Ahtiana aurescens
A. pallidula
A. sphaerosporella
Alectoria imshaugii
A. lata
A. nigricans
A. ochroleuca'
A. sarmentosa
Allantoparmelia almquistii
A. alpicola
Allocetraria madreporiformis
A. oakesiana
Amandinea milliaria
A. punctata
Amygdalaria paneola
A. subdissentiens
Anaptychia elbursiana
A. palmulata
A. setifera
Anzia colpodes
A. ornata
Arctoparmelia centrifuga
A. incurva
A. separata
Arthonia caesia
A. cinnabarina
A. glebosa
A. gyalectoides
A. ilicina
A. phaeobaea
A. rubella
A. radiata
Arthroraphis citrinella
Asahinea chrysantha
A. scholanderi
Aspicilia candida
A. cinerea
A. contorta
A. contorta subsp. hoffmanniana
A. filiformis
A. fruticulosa
A. hispida
A. limitata
A. mastrucata
A. reptans
A. supertegens
A. verrucigera
Astrothelium versicolor
Bacidia heterochroa
B. rubella
B. sabulatorum
B. schweinitzii
Baeomyces placophyllus
B. rufus
Bellemerea alpina
Biatora vernalis
Brigantea fuscolutea
B. leucoxantha
Brodoa oroarctica
Bryocaulon divergens
Bryoria capillaris
B. fremontii
B. friabilis
B. fuscescens
B. furcellata
B. glabra
B. lanestris
B. nadvornikiana
B. nitidula
B. pseudocapillaris
B. pseudofuscescens
B. spiralifera
B. subcana
B. tortuosa
B. tortuosa (yellow form)
B. trichodes subsp. americana
B. trichodes subsp. trichodes
Buellia disciformis
B. elegans
B. erubescens
B. halonia
B. milliaria
B. ocellata
B. oidalea
B. spuria
B. stillingiana
Bulbothrix confoederata
B. goebelii
B. isidiza
B. laevigatula
Byssoloma meadii
Calicium glaucellum
C. trabinellum
C. viride
Calopadia fusca
Caloplaca arenaria
C. arizonica
C. bolacina
C. borealis
C. brattiae
C. cerina
C. chrysophthalma
C. citrina
C. coralloides
C. decipiens
C. demissa
C. diphyodes
C. discolor
C. epithallina (on a lobate Lecanora sp.)
C. feracissima
C. flavogranulosa
C. flavorubescens
C. flavovirescens
C. holocarpa
C. ignea
C. impolita
C. inconspecta
C. jungermanniae
C. litoricola
C. ludificans
C. luteominea var. bolanderi
C. luteominea var. luteominea
C. marina
C. microphyllina (with a black fungal parasite)
C. modesta
C. obliterans
C. pelodella
C. rosei
C. saxicola s. str.
C. stantonii
C. tominii
C. trachyphylla
C. verruculifera
Candelaria concolor
C. fibrosa
Candelariella aurella
C. efflorescens
C. placodizans
C. reflexa
C. rosulans
C. spraguei
C. terrigena
C. vitellina
C. xanthostigma
Candelina mexicana
C. submexicana
Canomaculina subtinctoria
Canoparmelia carolineana
C. texana
Cavernularia hultenii
C. lophyrea
Cetradonia linearis
Cetraria aculeata
C. ericitorum subsp. reticulata
C. islandica subsp. crispiformis
C. islandica subsp. islandica
C. laevigata
C. muricata
C. nigricans
Cetrariella delisei
Cetrelia cetrarioides
C. chicitae
C. olivetorum
Chaenotheca brunneola
C. chrysocephala
C. furfuracea
C. trichialis
C. trichialis (parasitized by Chaenothopsis epithallina)
Chrysothrix candelaris
Cladina arbuscula
C. arbuscula subsp. beringiana
C. evansii
C. mitis
C. portentosa
C. portentosa subsp. pacifica
C. rangiferina
C. rangiferina (southern form)
C. stellaris
C. stellaris var. aberrans
C. stygia
C. submitis
C. subtenuis
C. terrae-novae (with Usnic and gray forms)
Cladonia amaurocraea
C. apodocarpa
C. asahinea
C. atlantica
C. balfourii
C. beaumontii
C. bellidiflora
C. borealis
C. boryi
C. botrytes
C. caespiticia
C. cariosa
C. carneola
C. carolineana
C. cenotea
C. cervicornis subsp. cervicornis
C. cervicornis subsp. verticillata
C. chlorophaea
C. coccifera
C. coniocraea
C. cornuta subsp. cornuta
C. cornuta subsp. groenlandica
C. crispata
C. cristatella (morphs with and without squamules)
C. deformis
C. didyma
C. didyma var. vulcanica
C. digitata
C. dimorphoclada
C. ecmocyna subsp. ecmocyna
C. ecmocyna subsp. intermedia
C. ecmocyna subsp. occidentalis
C. farinacea
C. fimbriata
C. firma
C. floerkeana
C. floridana
C. furcata (eastern population)
C. furcata (western population)
C. gracilis subsp. elongata
C. gracilis subsp. gracilis
C. gracilis subsp. turbinata (including squamulose morph)
C. gracilis subsp. vulnerata
C. grayi
C. hypoxantha
C. incrassata
C. kanewskii
C. leporina
C. macilenta
C. macrophyllodes
C. magyarica
C. mateocyatha
C. maxima
C. merochlorophaea
C. multiformis (cupless form)
C. multiformis (form with perforate cups)
C. norvegica
C. ochrochlora
C. pachycladodes
C. parasitica
C. perforata
C. peziziformis
C. phyllophora
C. pleurota
C. pocillum
C. polycarpoides
C. prostrata
C. pyxidata
C. rappii
C. rappii var. excelior
C. rappii var. rappii
C. rei
C. robbinsii
C. scabriuscula
C. singularis
C. sobolescens
C. squamosa
C. squamosa var. subsquamosa
C. strepsilis
C. subcariosa (norstictic/stictic/atranorin chemotype)
C. subfurcata
C. subradiata
C. subulata
C. sulphurina
C. symphycarpia
C. transcendens
C. trassii
C. turgida
C. umbricola
C. uncialis
C. verruculosa
Cliostomum griffithii
Coccocarpia erythroxyli
C. palmicola
Coccotrema maritimum
Coenogoneum implexum
Collema coccophorum
C. crispum
C. crispum var. metzleri
C. cristatum
C. curtisporum
C. furfuraceum
C. nigrescens
C. polycarpon
C. pulcellum
C. subflaccidum
C. tenax
C. undulatum var. granulosum
Conotrema urceolatum
Cornicularia normoerica
Crocynia pyxinoides
Cryptothecia rubrocinta
C. striata
Cyphelium brunneum
C. inquinans
C. lucidum
C. pinicola
C. tigillare
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