Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Fungi
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Acarosporomycetidae
Ordo: Acarosporales
Familia: Acarosporaceae
Genus: Polysporina
Species: P. cyclocarpa - P. dubia - P. ferruginea - P. frigida - P. gyrocarpa - P. lapponica - P. oligospora - P. pusilla - P. simplex - P. sinensis - P. terricola - P. urceolata
Name
Polysporina Vĕzda, 1978
Type species: Polysporina simplex (Davies) Vĕzda, 1978
Life habit: Lichenized or lichenicolous.
References
* Vĕzda, Folia geobot. phytotax bohemoslov. 13: 399 (1978).
* Vezda, A. (1978) Neue oder wenig bekannte Flechten in der Tschechoslowakei. II. - Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica 13: 397-420.
* Kantvilas, G. (1998) Notes on Polysporina Vĕzda, with a description of a new species from Tasmania. Lichenologist 30: 551-562. [1]
* Knudsen, K. (2005) Polysporina lapponica in southern California. Opuscula Philolichenum 2: 17-20. [2]
* Knudsen, K. (2007) Polysporina (pp. 276-278) In: Nash III, T.H., Gries, C., and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 3. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 567 pages.
* Magnusson, A.H. (1952) New crustaceous lichen species from North America. Acta Horti Gotoburg. 19: 31-49.
* Purvis, O.W., Coppins B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) (1992) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Nat. Hist. Mus. Pub./Br. Lich. Soc., 710 pp.
* USDA Plants Database
* Recent Literature on Lichens and Mattick's Literature Index
Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Coal-dust lichens; Polysporina lichen
