Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Heterodermia leucomela ssp. leucomela
liquen con franjas, Fringe lichen
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
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.