Dr. Robert Lücking (Field Museum, Chicago) recently asked lichenologists to send in a list of their top 5-20 favorite lichen species. Along with Dr. Thorsten Lumbsch (also of the Field Museum) and others, he plans to assemble a list of 100 lichens, and eventually each will be featured on a website with its own page full of photos and information about the species. Feel free to peruse my current top 20 lichens; each name has a link to a photograph of the species.
Arthonia caesia
Brigantiaea leucoxantha
Calicium trabinellum
Chaenotheca furfuracea
Cladonia bellidiflora
Conotrema urceolatum
Dibaeis baeomyces
Glyphis cicatricosa
Gyalideopsis buckii
Herpothallon rubrocinctum
Masonhalea richardsonii
Niebla cephalota
Ochrolechia oregonensis
Pilophorus clavatus
Placopsis lambii
Solorina crocea
Sphaerophorus globosus
Stereocaulon ramulosum
Umbilicaria cylindrica
Usnea longissima
I look forward to seeing how this project evolves! It will be a great way to reach out to those outside of the field of lichenology and demonstrate the beauty and diversity of lichen-forming fungi!
- Brendan
About Me
- Dr. Brendan Hodkinson
- Spring House, PA, United States
Scientist, Computational Biology, Oncology Translational Research
Janssen R&D (Johnson & Johnson)
Interests: Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Immuno-Oncology, Genomics, Molecular Diversity
Portions of this blog are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under grants specified in the individual posts. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or NIH.
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