Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

F. Bungartz: in Weber (1986) erronously cited as Aspidophyllum fugiens; material Weber 285 (L-40433). The material was originally determined by Vezda, but with publication of Lücking (2008) the species concept has changed; the Galapagos specimens has perithecia with disk-like, dentate expansion and not setae or hairs and thus belongs to A. scutellicarpum; however, in 2014 the species was discovered growing on leaves (Bungartz, F. 7088 A)

Origin: Native

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

• Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.
• Lücking, R. (2008) Foliicolous lichenized fungi. Flora Neotropica 103: 1-866.
• Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.