Previous page Next page
 
lastdragon.org

Images of British Lichens


Bryoria fuscescens (Gyeln.) Brodo & D.Hawksw.


Thallus fruticose, pale to dark smoky-brown, if greyish-green (as in lower photograph) then with some branches tinged brown, usually pendant, isotomically branched, hair-like, soralia tuberulate or from fissures. Widespread but more common in the north and west, mainly on acid-barked trees (birch, conifers) and fence posts.

Refs: Smith et al. (2009), 226; Purvis et al. (1992), 127; Dobson (2005), 86 (photo); Dobson (2011), 94 (photo); Jahns (1983), 186-7 (photo); Whelan (2011), 55 (photo); van Haluwyn et al. (2009), 116-7 (photo); van Herk & Aptroot (2004), 82-83 (photo); Wirth (1995), 1: 183 (photo), 185, 188 (photo); Wirth et al. (2004), 33 (photo); Moberg & Holmåson (1984), 104 (photo); Holien & Tønsberg (2008), 64 (photo); Nordic Lichen Flora (2011) 4: 31, 148 (photos, printed too dark); Brodo et al. (2001), 181 (photo); Hinds & Hinds (2007), 135 (photo); McCune & Geiser (2009), 39 (photo).

 
Bryoria fuscescens
On trunk of Birch (Betula), Kindrogan, Perthshire, April 2002
 
Bryoria fuscescens
On Pine (Pinus sylvestris), Braemar, Aberdeenshire, March 2008


Previous page   Next page


Lichens HOME PAGE | Index of Species | Conditions of Use and e-mail contact | References | Site Home Page


© A.J. Silverside
Uploaded March 2008, last updated May 2012 (first hosted at www-biol.paisley.ac.uk, January 2003)