Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Roccella babingtonii, R. peruensis, R. difficilis, fide Tehler (2002) and Tehler et al. (2009); F. Bungartz: two collections in FH (Baur sn. FH 197350 and FH 197352, both collections from Floreana) identified as Roccella intricata Mont. are misidentifications of R. gracilis. A Tehler: Roccella intricata Mont. (=Roccellaria mollis (Hampe) Zahlbr.) is the type for the name Roccellaria Darbishire. There is only one species in the genus and it is endemic to Chile; specimens from Galapagos are certainly misidentifications.

Origin: Native

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

• Darbishire, O.V. (1935) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932. No. 23: The Roccellaceae with Notes on Specimens Collected During The Expedition of 1905-06 to the Galapagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Scs., 4th Series, 21(23): 285-294.
• 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.
• Dodge, C.W. (1935) Lichenes. In: H.K. Svenson: Plants of the Astor Expedition, 1930 (Galápagos and Cocos Islands). Amer. J. Bot. 22 (2): 221.
• 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)
• 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.
• Tehler, A. (2002) Roccella In: T.H. Nash III, B.D. Ryan, C. Gries & F. Bungartz (eds.): Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region, vol. 1. Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University, Tempe, 451-454 pp.
• Tehler, A. Irestedt, M., Bungartz, F. & Wedin, M. (2009) Evolution and reproduction modes in the Roccella galapagoensis aggregate (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales) Taxon 58(2): 438-456.
• Weber, W.A. (1981) Lichenes Exsiccati, distributed by the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Fasc. 1-15, nos. 1-600, 1961-1979. Mycotaxon 13(1): 85-104.
• 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.