Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Buellia straminea
liquen botón, Button lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Teloschistales
Family
Physciaceae (= Caliciaceae)
Genus
Buellia
Species
straminea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Buellia xanthinula auct. non (Müll. Arg.) Malme, fide Elix & McCarthy (1998); in Dodge (1936) as Buellia xanthinula
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Dodge, C.W. (1936) Lichens of the G. Allan Hancock Expedition of 1934, collected by Wm. R. Taylor. Hancock Pacific Expeditions 3(3): 33-46.
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
- Farlow, W.G. (1902) Lichens. In: B.L. Robinson: Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Amerc. Acad. Arts Sc. 38(4): 83-89, N.S. 14 (Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapagos Islands)
- Imshaug, H.A. (1955) The lichen genus Buellia in Central America The Bryologist 58(4): 277-287
- Stewart, A. (1912) Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands 1905-1906. No. 7: Notes on the Lichens of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th Series, 1(7): 431-446.
- Weber, W.A. (1966) Lichenology and Bryology in the Galápagos Islands, with Check Lists of the Lichens and Bryophytes Thus Far Reported. In: Bowman, R.I. (ed.): The Galápagos. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Galápagos International Scientific Project, University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 197-200.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Buellia straminea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2300. Accessed 31 October 2026.