Polycauliona candelaria

Polycauliona candelaria is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.^[2] It was one of the first lichens formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. Since then, the taxon has acquired a long and extensive synonymy.^[1] It was finally transferred to the genus Polycauliona by Ulf Arup and colleagues in 2013, as part of a molecular phylogenetics-based restructuring of the family Teloschistaceae.^[3] In North America, one vernacular name is shrubby sunburst lichen.^[4]

Polycauliona candelaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lecanoromycetes
Order:	Teloschistales
Family:	Teloschistaceae
Genus:	Polycauliona
Species:	P. candelaria
Binomial name
Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting (2013)
Synonyms[1]
Lichen candelarius L. (1753) Xanthoria candelaria (L.) Th.Fr. (1861) Teloschistes candelarius (L.) Fink (1935)

References

1. "Synonymy. Current Name: Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting, in Arup, Søchting & Frödén, Nordic Jl Bot. 31(1): 51 (2013)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
2. "Polycauliona candelaria (L.) Frödén, Arup & Søchting". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
3. Arup, Ulf; Søchting, Ulrik; Frödén, Patrik (2013). "A new taxonomy of the family Teloschistaceae". Nordic Journal of Botany. 31 (1): 16–83. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00062.x.
4. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.