Silver Stubble Lichen

Chaenotheca phaeocephala

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Silver Stubble Lichen
Scientific Name: 
Chaenotheca phaeocephala
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Lichen
Kingdom: 
Fungi
Phylum: 
Ascomycota
Class: 
Coniocybomycetes
Order: 
Coniocybales
Family: 
Coniocybaceae
Distribution

Distribution

Crossley Lake area (Ahti, Teuvo, George W. Scotter, and Heino Vänskä. "Lichens of the reindeer preserve, northwest territories, Canada." Bryologist (1973): 48-76.)
Score: 
U

Number of Occurrences

Known from one record (Ahti, Teuvo, George W. Scotter, and Heino Vänskä. "Lichens of the reindeer preserve, northwest territories, Canada." Bryologist (1973): 48-76.)
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
Status Rank Description: 
Considered rare and NWT sample considered an outlier from known distribution (Goward, T., 1999: The lichens of British Columbia. Illustrated keys. Part 2 - Fruticose species. - British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Victoria. 319 pp.). Distinct from C. subroscida (Tibell, Leif, and Andreas Beck. "Morphological variation, photobiont association and ITS phylogeny of Chaenotheca phaeocephala and C. subroscida (Coniocybaceae, lichenized ascomycetes)." Nordic Journal of Botany 21.6 (2001): 651-660.)
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Drafted by Chris Deduke 2018, reveiwed 2019 by SC
Last Updated: 
September 4, 2019

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