Xanthoria parietina
Common names
Common sunburst lichen
Biostatus
Native
Current conservation status
2018 | Not Threatened | Qualifiers: SO
Category
Lichen
Structural class
Lichens - Foliose
Lichen substrates
Corticolous (bark, wood), Saxicolous (rock), Artificial (glass, concrete, plastic, brick), Lignicolous (decorticated wood)
Substrate details
Corticolous, saxicolous, artificial surfaces (timber, glass, concrete, plastic, bone, painted wood, gravestones, and abandoned vehicles)
Detailed taxonomy
Genus
Family
Synonyms
Lichen parietinus
Endemic taxon
No
Endemic genus
No
Endemic family
No
Other information
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
XANPAR
Referencing and citations
References and further reading
Galloway D.J. 1985: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens. Wellington: PD Hasselberg, Government Printer. 662 pp.
Galloway D.J. 2007: Flora of New Zealand: Lichens, including lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi. 2nd edition. Lincoln, Manaaki Whenua Press. 2261 pp.
Kondratyuk S. and Poelt J. 1997: Two new Asian Xanthoria species (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycotina). Lichenologist 29: 173–190.
Murray J. 1960: Studies of New Zealand lichens. II – The Teloschistaceae. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 88: 197–210.
Scherrer S. and Honegger R. 2003: Inter- and intraspecific variation of homologous hydrophobin (H1) gene sequences among Xanthoria spp. (lichen-forming ascomycetes). New Phytologist 158: 375–389.