Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Buellia galapagona
liquen botón, Button lichen
Roth, Mathey, & Leuckert (1978): 3-0-methyl-2,5,7-trichloronorlichexanthone (major), 0-methyldichloronorlichexanthone and trichloronorlichexanthone (minor) lichloronorlichexanthone (traces).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Teloschistales
Family
Physciaceae (= Caliciaceae)
Genus
Buellia
Species
galapagona
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Endemic
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
- Roth, K. Mathey, A., & Leuckert, C. (1978) The xanthones of Buellia galapagona Weber (Lichenes, Physciaceae) Wilidenowia 8 (2): 363-368
- Weber, W.A. (1971) Four new species of Buellia from western North and South America. The Bryologist 74: 185-191.
- Weber, W.A. (1981) Lichenes Exsiccati, distributed by the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-600, 1961-1979. Mycotaxon 13(1): 85-104.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Buellia galapagona", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2289. Accessed 4 November 2026.