Polycauliona candelaria

Polycauliona candelaria
Secure
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Teloschistales
Family: Teloschistaceae
Genus: Polycauliona
Species:
P. candelaria
Binomial name
Polycauliona candelaria
(L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
Synonyms
  • Lichen candelarius L. (1753)
  • Xanthoria candelaria (L.) Th.Fr. (1861)
  • Teloschistes candelarius (L.) Fink (1935)

Polycauliona candelaria is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae. It was one of the first lichens formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. Since then, the taxon has acquired a long and extensive synonymy. It was finally transferred to the genus Polycauliona by Ulf Arup and colleagues in 2013, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae. In North America, one vernacular name is shrubby sunburst lichen.

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References

  1. ↑ NatureServe. "Polycauliona candelaria". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 51 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  3. ↑ "Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. Bibcode:2013NorJB..31...16A. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
  5. ↑ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.