FOLIICOLOUS LICHENS OF THE WORLD - The Field Museum

Guide for Beginners FOLIICOLOUS LICHENS OF THE WORLD 

Part 1: Genera and selected species I (Introduction) 

by: Robert Lücking & Marcela Cáceres, Department of Botany, The Field Museum, Chicago 

Photos by: Robert Lücking & Marcela Cáceres. Produced by: R. Lücking, M. Giblin & R. B. Foster, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. 

© Robert Lücking and Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. Rapid Color Guide #130, version 1.0. 2002 

Tropical rainforest as habitat for foliicolous lichens 

(Kaieteur National Park, Guyana) 

Foliicolous lichens on leaves of Bignoniaceae 

(Saül, French Guiana) 

Few know that tropical lichen diversity surpasses that of temperate areas, and that lichens play an important role in tropical 

rainforest ecology, being involved in water and nutrient cycling. Foliicolous lichens, which grow on the surface of living 

leaves of vascular plants, are the most untypical lichens, since they are largely confined to tropical rainforest. More than 

800 species are known in the world, and this guide gives an overview over genera and selected species. The leaf surfaces 

host many other organisms, including bryophytes, algae, fungi, bacteria, protists, and invertebrates. Together they are 

known as 'epiphylls', and their habitat as 'phyllosphere'. 

Foliicolous lichen mimicry by the treefrog Hyla rufitela and the katydid Rosophyllum colosseum 

(La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica; photo on right by Andrea Bernecker) 

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Part 1: Genera and selected species II (Arthoniales, Dothideales, Verrucariales) 




Arthonia cyanea Arthonia orbygniae Eremothecella cingulata Eremothecella calamicola 

(apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia) (pycnidia) 

Amazonomyces sprucei Amazonomyces farkasiae Cryptothecia candida Cryptothecia effusa 

(apothecia) (pycnidia) (apothecia) (apothecia) 

Mazosia rotula Enterographa angustissima Opegrapha filicina Opegrapha serusiauxii 

(apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia) (goniocystangia) 

Microtheliopsis uleana Lyromma dolicobelum Macentina perminuta Psoroglaena epiphylla 

(apothecia) (pycnidia) (perithecia) (thallus) 

Pocsia marattiae Pocsia borhidii Phylloblastia amazonica Phylloblastia dolichospora 

(perithecia) (isidia) (perithecia) (isidia)


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Part 1: Genera and selected species III (Pyrenulales, Trichotheliales) 



© Robert Lücking and Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. Rapid Colour Guide #130, version 1.0. 2002 

Aspidothelium scutellicarpum Aspidothelium geminiparum Anisomeridium musaesporoides Anisomeridium foliicola 

(perithecia) (perithecia) (perithecia) (pycnidia) 

Caprettia tanzanica Caprettia amazonensis Musaespora kalbii Musaespora coccinea 

(perithecia) (pycnidia) (perithecia) (campylidia) 

Strigula macrocarpa Strigula nemathora Strigula phyllogena Phyllocratera papuana 

(perithecia) (perithecia) (perithecia) (perithecia) 

Flavobathelium epiphyllum Phyllobathelium firmum Phyllobathelium leguminosae Trichothelium argenteum 

(perithecia) (perithecia) (pycnidia) (perithecia) 

Porina deremensis Porina limbulata Porina lucida Porina alba ("Phyllophiale") 

(perithecia) (perithecia) (perithecia) (isidia)


Part 1: Genera and selected species IV (Ostropales, Gyalectales) 


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© Robert Lücking and Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. Rapid Color Guide #130, Version 1.0. 2002 

Gyalidea phyllophila Psorotheciopsis guajalitensis Asterothyrium rondoniense Gyalideopsis vulgaris 

(apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia) 

Hippocrepidea nigra Aderkomyces albostrigosus Aderkomyces dilatatus Tricharia longispora 

(apothecia and hyphophores) (apothecium and setae) (hyphophore) (apothecium and setae) 

Echinoplaca epiphylla Calenia dictyospora Gyalectidium caucasicum Gyalectidium filicinum 

(apothecia and setae) (apothecia) (apothecia) (hyphophores) 

Aulaxina submuralis Paratricharia paradoxa Chroodiscus coccineus Chroodiscus mirificus 

(apothecia) (apothecia and setae) (apothecia) (isidia) 

Phaeographis inconspicua Coenogonium interpositum Coenogonium siquirrensis Semigyalecta paradoxa 

(apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia) (apothecia)


Part 1: Genera and selected species V (Lecanorales I) 


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Coccocarpia stellata Parmeliella nigrocincta Podotara pilophoriformis Fuscidea fulva 


Bacidina apiahica Bacidina pseudohyphophorifera Szczawinskia tsugae Malcolmiella rhodopsis 

(apothecia) (pycnidia) (pycnidia) (apothecia) 

Fellhanera paradoxa Fellhanera badimioides Brasilicia brasiliensis Bapalmuia lineata 


Byssoloma leucoblepharum Byssoloma fadenii Byssolecania variabilis Eugeniella psychotriae 


Baflavia flavescens Baflavia flavescens Badimia dimidiata Badimia galbinea 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (apothecia) (campylidia)


Part 1: Genera and selected species VI (Lecanorales II, Stereales) 


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Pseudocalopadia mira Pseudocalopadia mira Badimiella pteridophila Barubria fuscorubra 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (campylidia) (campylidia) 

Calopadia lucida Calopadia puiggarii Tapellaria epiphylla Tapellariopsis octomera 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (apothecia) (campylidia) 

Lasioloma arachnoideum Lasioloma trichophorum Sporopodium flavescens Sporopodium antonianum 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (apothecia and campylidia) (campylidia) 

Loflammia epiphylla Loflammia epiphylla Logilvia gilva Logilvia gilva 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (apothecia) (apothecia and campylidia) 

Loflammiopsis brasiliensis Loflammiopsis brasiliensis Kantvilasia hians Dictyonema phyllogenum 

(apothecia) (campylidia) (apothecia) (thallus)

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