Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pyxine subcinerea
liquen del rosetón abrochado, Buttoned rosette lichen
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Teloschistales
Family
Physciaceae (= Caliciaceae)
Genus
Pyxine
Species
subcinerea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Pyxine caesiopruinosa, fide Elix & McCarthy (1998); F. Bungartz: A. Aptroot (pers. comm.) suspected that reports of P. connectens might also belong here, but all COLO specimens identified by W.A. Weber are fertile specimens of P. cocoes.
Taxon origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Weber, W.A. (1986) The Lichen Flora of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Mycotaxon 27: 451-497.
- Elix, J.A. McCarthy, P.M. (1998) Catalogue of the Lichens of the Smaller Pacific Islands. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 70, J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart, 361pp.