Polycauliona polycarpa

Polycauliona polycarpa
Conservation status
	; Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Teloschistales
Family:	Teloschistaceae
Genus:	Polycauliona
Species:	P. polycarpa
Binomial name
	Polycauliona polycarpa; (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
Synonyms
	List Lobaria polycarpa Hoffm. (1796) ; Lichen polycarpus (Hoffm.) Ehrh. (1799) ; Parmelia candelaria var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Ach. (1803) ; Lecanora candelaria var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Ach. (1810) ; Placodium polycarpum (Hoffm.) Frege (1812) ; Parmelia polycarpa (Hoffm.) Spreng. (1820) ; Psoroma polycarpum (Hoffm.) Gray (1821) ; Parmelia parietina var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Fr. (1831) ; Squamaria candelaria var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Hook. (1833) ; Lobaria parietina var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Fürnr. (1839) ; Squamaria polycarpa (Hoffm.) Sm. (1844) ; Parmelia parietina f. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Körb. (1846) ; Imbricaria parietina f. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Flot. (1850) ; Physcia parietina var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) A.Massal. (1852) ; Physcia parietina f. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Körb. (1855) ; Teloschistes parietinus var. polycarpus (Hoffm.) Tuck. (1866) ; Physcia polycarpa (Hoffm.) Linds. (1869) ; Xanthoria lychnea var. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Th.Fr. (1871) ; Physcia parietina subsp. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Lamy (1880) ; Xanthoria parietina f. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Arnold (1881) ; Teloschistes parietinus subsp. polycarpus (Hoffm.) Tuck. (1882) ; Teloschistes polycarpus (Hoffm.) Tuck. (1882) ; Xanthoria polycarpa (Hoffm.) Rieber (1891) ; Xanthoria lychnea f. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Eitner (1901) ; Xanthoria lychnea subsp. polycarpa (Hoffm.) Hasse (1913) ; Massjukiella polycarpa (Hoffm.) S.Y.Kondr., Fedorenko, S.Stenroos, Kärnefelt, Elix, Hur & A.Thell (2012) ;

Polycauliona polycarpa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), fruticose lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.^[3] It was first formally described by German botanist Georg Franz Hoffmann in 1796, as Lobaria polycarpa. It has acquired quite an extensive synonymy in its taxonomic history.^[2] In 2013, Patrik Frödén and colleagues transferred it to the genus Polycauliona, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae.^[4] In northern North America, one vernacular name for the species is pin-cushion sunburst lichen.^[5]

References

^ NatureServe. "Polycauliona polycarpa". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
^ ^a ^b "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 53 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^ "Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^ Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. Bibcode:2013NorJB..31...16A. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
^ Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. pp. 746–747. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.

[NS-1] NatureServe. "Polycauliona polycarpa". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 15 June 2025.

[Species_Fungorum_synonymy-2] "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 53 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

[CoL-3] "Polycauliona polycarpa (Hoffm.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

[Arup_et_al._2013-4] Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. Bibcode:2013NorJB..31...16A. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.

[Brodo_et_al._2001-5] Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. pp. 746–747. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.

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