Volume 57 is the fifth volume of the Flora of Australia which documents the lichens. Here, we emphasise several speciose and ecologically significant families that colonise the bark of trees and shrubs in rainforest, monsoon vine forest and dry-sclerophyll across northern Australia, viz. Graphidaceae, Phyllopsoraceae, Pyrenulaceae, Thelotremataceae and Trypetheliaceae. In addition, treatments are provided for prominent, mainly tropical and subtropical genera such as Dirinaria, Letrouitia, Pyxine and Strigula, as well as the more widely distributed Buellia s. str., Lepraria, Ramboldia and Tephromela. In contrast, the volume also includes lichens that are primarily associated with cool-temperate and montane habitats in south-eastern Australia, for example Nephroma, Peltigera, Thelocarpon and Umbilicaria.
Complete or partial accounts of 21 families are provided in Volume 57, including 77 genera and 654 species and infra-specific taxa. One genus (Schizotrema, Thelotremataceae) and 26 species are described as new to science, and 36 new combinations are made.
This work brings to 1822 the number of Australian lichen species and infra-specific taxa treated in the five volumes published.
About this book
Book series
Flora of Australia
Publishers
Australian Biological Resources Study/
CSIRO Publishing
Year
2009
Author
Various Authors, Illustrators & Photographers
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978 0 643 09664 6
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978 0 643 09665 3
Size
250 × 176 mm (B5)
Number of pages
xx + 687 pages
index, glossary, bibliography
Binding
Hardcover
section stitched
Illustrations
64 colour plates
183 black and white plates
654 maps
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