Fungi Outer Hebrides


Family: Parmeliaceae

Nesolechia oxyspora (Tul.) A. Massal.

DNA studies have shown this Nesolechia is a lichenicolous lichen with an endokapylic thallus (no morphologically distinct lichenised structure) (Persoh & Rambold 2002). A common species in the north-west of Scotland, found on a wide range of genera in the Parmeliaceae

References: 
Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland. Nesolechia oxyspora
Hawksworth, D. L. (1983) A key to the lichen-forming, parasitic, parasymbiotic and saprophytic fungi occurring on lichens in the British Isles
Peršoh, D. & Rambold, G. (2002) Phacopsis: A lichenicolous genus of the family Parmeliaceae
Smith, C.W. et al. editors (2009) The Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland
Alstrup, V. & Hawksworth, D.L. (1990) The Lichenicolous Fungi of Greenland

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