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Heterodermia coralliphora (Taylor) Skorepa

liquen con franjas, Fringe lichen

No description found, CDS specimen (FB3974) has shiny white surface, cylindr. to coralloid isidia, no lower cortex with strong rust-red pigment (K+ purple), and dense, long,branched black cilia along the lobe margins.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Fungi

Phylum
Ascomycota

Class
Lecanoromycetes

Order
Teloschistales

Family
Physciaceae (= Caliciaceae)

Genus
Heterodermia

Species
coralliphora

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Anaptychia coralliphora [corallophora] Taylor; F. Bungartz & K. Kalb: the spelling "corallophora" is an orthographical error that needs to be corrected to "corallifera".

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

References

  • Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
  • Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Heterodermia coralliphora", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2795. Accessed 4 November 2026.