Parmeliaceae

Tickertape bone lichen

Hypogymnia duplicata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 13, 2018

Some sites use duplicate tube lichen as a common name for this composite organism, but I prefer tickertape bone lichen. As Richard (the photographer) notes, this a popular species in lichen charades–either common name will do.

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The thallus of Parmelia sulcata

Parmelia sulcata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on January 8, 2015

This lichen never fails to remind me of summer, though it is a snowy-looking subject. Parmelia sulcata, or hammered shield lichen, is a silvery foliose species in the Parmeliaceae with a dark, nearly black, underside possessing dense rhizines (hair-like growths from the body that anchor the lichen to the substrate). The photobiont of this symbiont […]

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The thallus of Letharia vulpina

Letharia vulpina

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 18, 2005

There are two recognized species (as of 2005) in the genus Letharia (the wolf lichens), and both can be found in western North America. This particular lichen was found growing at the trunk base of a Pinus ponderosa near Merritt, British Columbia.

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