Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Flakea papillata
Tiny scales
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Eurotiomycetes
Order
Verrucariales
Family
Verrucariaceae
Genus
Flakea
Species
papillata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Agonimia papillata, fide Index Fungorum and A. Aptroot; Syn.: Psoroglaena cubensis auct. non Müll. Arg., fide Elix & McCarthy (1998)
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.
- Muggia, L. Gueidan, C., Perlmutter, G., Eriksson, O.E. & Grube, M. (2009) Molecular data confirm the position of Flakea papillata in the Verrucariaceae. The Bryologist 112(3): 538-543.
- Weber, W.A. (1993) Additions to the Galápagos and Cocos Islands Lichen and Bryophyte Floras. The Bryologist 96(3): 431-434.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Flakea papillata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=3891. Accessed 5 November 2026.