Ephebe lanata is a species of filamentous lichen in the family Lichinaceae, and the type species of the genus Ephebe. The lichen was first described as a new species by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Lichen lanatus.[1] Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio transferred it to Ephebe in 1888.[2] In North America, it is known colloquially as the "rockshag lichen".[3]
Ephebe lanata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lichinomycetes |
Order: | Lichinales |
Family: | Lichinaceae |
Genus: | Ephebe |
Species: | E. lanata
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Binomial name | |
Ephebe lanata | |
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References
edit- ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1155.
- ^ Vainio, E.A. (1888). "Notulae de synonymia lichenum". Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 14: 20–30.
- ^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.