Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Lecanoromycetidae
Ordo: Lecanorales
Familia: Parmeliaceae
SubFamilia: Parmelioideae
Genus: Alectoria
Species: A. fallacina – A. imshaugii – A. lata – A. mexicana – A. ochroleuca – A. sarmentosa – A. vancouverensis – A. virens
Name
Alectoria Ach. in Luyk., Tent. Hist. Lich.: 95 (1809). [MycoBank #116]
Type Species: Alectoria sarmentosa (Ach.) Ach., Lichenogr. Univers.: 595 (1810). [MycoBank #123275]
References
Acharius, E. 1810. Lichenographia Universalis. In qua Lichenes omnes detectos, adiectis observationibus et figuris horum vegetabilium naturam et organorum carpomorphorum structuram illustrantibus, ad genera, species, varietates differentiis et observationibus sollicite definitas.: 1–696, pl. 1–14. BHL Reference page.
Brodo, I.M. & Hawksworth, D.L. 1977. Alectoria and allied genera in North America. Opera Botanica 42: 1–164. BHL Reference page.
Luyken, J.A. 1809. Tentamen historiae lichenum in genere, cui accendunt primae lineae distributionis novae.: 1–102. Henrik Dieterich, Gottingen. BHL Reference page.
Brodo, I.M., Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Alectoria (pp. 150-155) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.
Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Alectoria (pp. 50-53) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.
Goward, T. 1999. The lichens of British Columbia - Illustrated Keys - Part 2 - Fruticose Species. Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests Research Program, 319 pp. (RLL List # 176 / Rec.# 6980 - Recent Literature on Lichens) Online Reference page. : Alectoria Ach. (pp. 47-50)
Hawksworth, D.L. (1969) Chemical and Nomenclatural Notes on Alectoria (Lichenes) I . Taxon, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 393-399. [1]
Hinds, J.W. and Hinds, P.L. (2007) Alectoria Ach. (1809) (pp. 117-120) In, The Macrolichens of New England. The New York Botanical Garden Press, 584 pp. [2]
McCune, B. and Geiser, L. (1997) Alectoria (pp. 20-24) Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 386 pp.
Purvis, O.W. (1992) Alectoria Ach. (1810) (pp. 67-69) In: Purvis, O.W., Coppins, B.J., Hawksworth, D.L., James, P.W. and Moore, D.M. (eds.) The Lichen Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Natural History Museum Publication, 710 pp.
Ryan, B.D. (2002) Alectoria (pp. 92-95) In: Nash III, T.H., Ryan, B.D, Gries, C. and Bungartz, F. (eds.), Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, Vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 532 pages.
Thomson, J.W. (1984) Alectoria Ach. (pp. 33-38). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages.
Kantvilas, G. [From Flora of Australia vol. 54 (1992)] Discussion of Alectoria
Links
Index Fungorum: IF 116
MycoBank: MB 116
North American Lichen Checklist
Vernacular names
English: Witch's hair lichen
日本語: ホネキノリ属
Alectoria is a genus of fruticose lichens belonging to the family Parmeliaceae.[1]
Species
Alectoria brodoana Essl. (2016) – Mexico[2]
Alectoria gowardii Lumbsch (2010)[3] – Northwest Territories
Alectoria imshaugii Brodo & D.Hawksw. (1977)
Alectoria lata (Taylor) Linds. (1859) – North America; Central America; Asia[2]
Alectoria mexicana Brodo & D.Hawksw. (1977) – Mexico[2]
Alectoria ochroleuca (Schrank) A.Massal. (1855)
Alectoria ochroleucoides Essl. (2016) – Mexico[2]
Alectoria sarmentosa (Ach.) Ach. (1810)
Alectoria sorediosa (K.G.W.Lång ex Räs.) McMullin & Lendemer (2016)
Alectoria spiculatosa Li S.Wang & Xin Y.Wang (2015) – Yunnan, China
References
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Lücking, Robert; Hodkinson, Brendan P.; Leavitt, Steven D. (2017). "The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera". The Bryologist. 119 (4): 361–416. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-119.4.361. S2CID 90258634.
Esslinger, T.L. (2016). "Alectoria in Mexico". In Herrera-Campos, Maria; Pérez-Pérez, Rosa Emilia; Nash, Thomas H. III (eds.). Lichens of Mexico. The Parmeliaceae – Keys, distribution and specimen descriptions. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. Vol. 110. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. pp. 69–80. ISBN 978-3-443-58089-6.
Lumbsch, H.T.; Huhndorf, S.H. (2010). "Notes on ascomycete systematics". Fieldiana Botany. 1: 42–64.
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