Miriquidica deusta

Miriquidica deusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Lecanorales
Family:	Lecanoraceae
Genus:	Miriquidica
Species:	Miriquidica deusta
Binomial name
Miriquidica deusta (Stenh.) Hertel & Rambold[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Lecanora deusta (Stenh.) Lecidea deusta (Stenh.) Nyl. Lecidea deustata Zahlbr. Lecidea fuscoatra var. deusta Stenh. Semilecanora deusta (Stenh.) Motyka Miriquidica garovaglii (Schaerer) Miriquidica complanata

Miriquidica deusta is a species of lichen in the Lecanoraceae family. A North American native, it generally grows on siliceous rocks.^[4] It belongs to the Ascomycota division and Pezizomycotina subdivision, and to the Lecanorales order.^[5] These are found in both general and Estonian herbariums.^[6]

Gallery

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  Some of the fungi from a closer view.

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  Another view of M. Deusta.

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  The rocks on which the fungi has grown.

References

1. ^ http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=132362
2. ^ http://www.lichenology.info/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=atlas_frm&newId=1419
3. ^ http://luirig.altervista.org/schedenam/fnam.php?taxon=Miriquidica+deusta
4. ^ http://liquenesdealmeria.blogspot.com/2010/02/miriquidica-deusta.html Lichens of Almería
5. ^ http://www.nature.british-towns.net/nature/07_specie_detail.asp?GetLSID=157069 Miriquidica deusta on the British Database of World Flora and Fauna
6. ^ http://www.ut.ee/lichens/herb/Mhlist.html List of taxa kept in TU/Tartu Ülikooli samblike herbaariumi nimestik

Further reading

• [1] Online journals-'On Some Saxicolous Lecideoid Lichens of the Beringian Region and Adjacent Areas of Eastern Siberia and Russian Far East'.
• [2] The Bryologist (BioOne Online Journals)- 'Recent Literature on Lichens—194'.