Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Aspidothelium scutellicarpum
Mortarboard lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Dothideomycetes
Order
Incertae sedis
Family
Aspidotheliaceae
Genus
Aspidothelium
Species
scutellicarpum
Taxon category: Accepted
F. Bungartz: in Weber (1986) erronously cited as Aspidophyllum fugiens; material Weber 285 (L-40433). The material was originally determined by Vezda, but with publication of Lücking (2008) the species concept has changed; the Galapagos specimens has perithecia with disk-like, dentate expansion and not setae or hairs and thus belongs to A. scutellicarpum.
Origin: Native
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
- Lücking, R. (2008) Foliicolous lichenized fungi. Flora Neotropica 103: 1-866.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Aspidothelium scutellicarpum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16018. Accessed 1 November 2026.