Lichens of the Santa Monica Mountains:
Ventura and Los Angeles Counties
From Kerry Knudsen[1]
Acarospora bullata Anzi
Acarospora cinereoalba (Fink) H. Magnusson
Acarospora fuscata (Nylander) Arnold
Acarospora obpallens (Nylander) Zahlbruckner
Acarospora smaragdula
(Wahlenberg) A. Massalongo var. smaragdula
Acarospora smaragdula (Wahlenberg) A. Massalongo var. lesdainii (Harmand ex A.L. Smith) H. Magnusson
Acarospora socialis H. Magnusson
Acarospora
vernonensis A. Massalongo
Aspicilia sp.
Aspicilia glaucospina (Nylander in
Hasse) Hue
Buellia badia (Fries) A.
Massalongo
Buellia punctata (Hoffmann) A.
Massalongo s. lat.
Buellia sequax (Nylander) Zahlbruckner
Buellia stellulata (Taylor) Mudd
Caloplaca arenaria (Persoon) Müll. Arg.
Caloplaca bolacina (Tuckerman) Herre
Caloplaca citrina (Hoffmann) Th.
Fries
Caloplaca holocarpa
(Hoffmann)
Th. Fries
Candelariella aurella (Hoffmann) Zahlbruckner
Catillaria franciscana (Tuckerman) Herre
Cladonia cervicornis (Acharius) Flotow ssp. cervicornis
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerfelt) Sprengel
Cladonia hammeri Ahti
Cladonia pulvinella
Hammer
Cladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffmann
Cladonia subulata (L.) F.H. Wiggers
Diploschistes
diacapsis (Acharius) Lumbsch
Diploschistes
muscorum (Scopoli) R. Santesson
Endocarpon pseudosubnitescens Breuss
Endocarpon pusillum Hedwig
Lecania brunonis (Tuckerman) Herre
Lecanora campestris
(Schaerer) Hue
Lecanora dispersa (Persoon) Sommerfelt
Lecidea mannii Tuckerman
Lecidea plana (J. Lahm) Nylander
Melanelia
elegantula (Zahlbruckner) Esslinger
Mobergia angelica (Stizenberger) H. Mayrhofer & Sheard
Mycobilimbia
austrocalifornica (Zahlbruckner) Knudsen
Ochrolechia
subpallens Verseghy
Peltula bolanderi (Tuckerman) Wetmore
Peltula obscurans var. hassei (Zahlbruckner) Wetmore
Peltula patellata (Bagl.) Swinscow
& Krog.
Physcia tribacia (Acharius) Nylander
Physconia isidiigera (Zahlbruckner in Herre) Esslinger
Placidium squamulosum
(Acharius)
Breuss
Placynthiella icmalea (Acharius) Coppins & P. James
Placynthiella
knudsenii Lendemer
Placynthiella
uliginosa (Schrader) Coppins & P. James
Polysporina
lapponica (Acharius ex Schaerer) Degelius
Polysporina simplex
(Davies) Vězda
Psora decipiens (Hedwig) Hoffmann
Psora pacifica Timdal
Psora russellii (Tuckerman) A.
Schneider
Rinodina bolanderi H.
Magnusson
Rinodina californiensis Sheard
Rinodina confragosa (Acharius) Körber
Rinodina intermedia Bagl.
Sarcogyne arenosa (Herre) Knudsen & Standley
Sarcogyne similis H. Magnusson
Texosporium
sancti-jacobi (Tuckerman) Navd.
Thelomma santessonii L. Tibell
Trapelia involuta (Taylor) Hertel
Trapeliopsis flexuosa (Fries) Coppins & P. James
Trapeliopsis glaucopholis (Nylander ex Hasse) Printzen & McCune
Xanthoparmelia cumberlandia (Gyelnik) Hale
Xanthoparmelia neotaractica Hale
This list includes only those lichen species forwhich voucher specimens have been collected and deposited into public herbaria. Additional species undoubtably occur in the Santa Monica Mountains. Any spelling errors on this list are mine. Updated: 10 October 2005.
[1] Knudsen, Kerry. 2005. Lichens of the Santa Monica Mountains, Part One. Opuscula Philolichenum 2:27-36. http://clade.acnatsci.org/lendemer/paper6.pdf