Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Dictyonema sericeum
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Hygrophoraceae
Genus
Dictyonema
Species
sericeum
Taxon category: Accepted
reported by Weber (1986) as Dictyonema guadelupense; only the material forming bracket-like shelves belongs here
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.
- Lawrey, J.D. Lücking, R., Sipman, H.J.M., Chaves, J.L., Redhead, S.A., Bungartz, F., Sikaroodi, M. & Gillevet, P.M. (2009) High concentration of basidiolichens in a single family of agaricoid mushrooms (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae). Mycological Research 113: 114-1171.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Dictyonema sericeum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2625. Accessed 4 November 2026.