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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Lecanoromycetes
Subclassis: Ostropomycetidae
Ordo: Pertusariales

Familia: Icmadophilaceae
Genus: Thamnolia
Species: T. subuliformis – T. vermicularis
Name

Thamnolia Ach. ex Schaerer, 1850


Type Species: Thamnolia vermicularis (Sw.) Schaer., 1850

Comment: T. vermicularis and T. subuliformis are essentially identical in form, but differ in chemistry and distribution. (McCune & Geisser 2009)
References

Schaer., Enum. critic. lich. europ. (Bern): 243 (1850)
Schaerer, E. (1850) Enumeratio critica lichenum Europaeorum. - Bernae. (Mattick's Literature Index)

Brodo, I.M.; Sharnoff, S.D. and Sharnoff, S. (2001) Thamnolia (pp. 677-678) In, Lichens of North America. Yale University Press, New Haven, 795 pages.

Dobson, F.S. (2000) (Fourth edition) Thamnolia (p. 375) In, Lichens: An illustrated guide to the British and Irish species. The Richmond Publishing Co., Ltd., Slough, England, 431 pp.

McCune, B. and Geiser, L. (2009) Thamnolia (pp. 333-334) Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. (Second Edition) Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 464 pp.

St. Clair, L.L. (1999) Thamnolia Ach. ex Schaer. (p. 192) In - A color guidebook to common Rocky Mountain lichens. M.L. Bean Life Science Museum of Brigham Young University Publisher, 242 pp.

Thomson, J.W. (1984) Thamnolia Ach., (pp. 435-439). In, American Arctic Lichens: 1. The Macrolichens. Columbia University Press, New York, 504 pages. (Books.Google)

USDA Plants Database

Index Fungorum

Vernacular names
English: Whiteworm lichens

Thamnolia is a genus of lichens in the family Icmadophilaceae.[2] Members of the genus are commonly called whiteworm lichens.

Two species of Thamnolia are used by ethnic peoples of Yunnan Province (China) as a component of purported health-promoting tea: Thamnolia vermicularis, and T. subuliformis.[3]
Species

Thamnolia juncea R.Sant. (2004)[4]
Thamnolia papelillo R.Sant. (2004)[4]
Thamnolia subuliformis (Ehrh.) W.L.Culb. (1963)
Thamnolia taurica (Wulfen) A.Massal. (1856)
Thamnolia tundrae Brännström & Tibell (2018)[5]
Thamnolia vermicularis (Sw.) Schaer. (1850)

References

"Synonymy: Thamnolia Ach. ex Schaer., Enum. critic. lich. europ. (Bern): 243 (1850)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.
Wang, Li-song; Narui, Takao; Harada, Hiroshi; Culberson, Chicita F.; Culberson, William Louis (2001). "Ethnic uses of lichens in Yunnan, China". The Bryologist. 104 (3): 345–349. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2001)104[0345:EUOLIY]2.0.CO;2.
Santesson, R. (2004). "Two new species of Thamnolia". Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses. 34 (1): 393–397.
Onut-Brännström, Ioana; Johannesson, Hanna; Tibell, Leif (2018). "Thamnolia tundrae sp. nov., a cryptic species and putative glacial relict". The Lichenologist. 50 (1): 59–75. doi:10.1017/S0024282917000615.

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