Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Type (FH): on bark, Galapagos Islands, coll. Rev. T. Hill, Hassler Expedition (F. Bungartz: specimen not found during visit to FH, possibly on loan to I. Messuti, one specimen collected and identified by Weber as P. albinea, L-40346, COLO 188868; US 69128 isotype seen).

Origin: Endemic

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

• Bungartz, F. Elix, J.A., Yánez-Ayabaca, A. & Archer, A.W. (2015) Endemism in the genus Pertusaria (Pertusariales, lichenized Ascomycota) from the Galapagos Islands. Telopea 18: 325–369. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7751/telopea8895
• 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.
• Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
• 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.