Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Heterodermia leucomela ssp. leucomela (Fée) Swinscow & Krog

liquen con franjas, Fringe lichen

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Fungi

Phylum
Ascomycota

Class
Lecanoromycetes

Order
Teloschistales

Family
Physciaceae (= Caliciaceae)

Genus
Heterodermia

Species
leucomela

Subspecies
ssp. leucomela

Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa

F. Bungartz: first reported from Galapagos by Hooker (1847) as Borrera leucomelas var. filiformis (Dix) Hook. f.

Origin: Native

Status

Least concern

Distribution

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

References

  • Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
  • Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
  • Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Miquel, S.E. Bungartz, F. (2017) Snails found among herbarium specimens of Galapagos lichens and bryophytes, with the description of Scolodonta rinae (Gastropoda, Scolodontidae), a new species of carnivorous micro-mollusk Archiv für Molluskenkunde (in press).

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"Galapagos Species Database, Heterodermia leucomela ssp. leucomela", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2802. Accessed 7 August 2025.