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206 Journ. Hattori Bot. Lab. No. 43 1977<br />

Typus: Azores, leg. GUTHN~K (date ?) (G-SCHAER, holotypus. not seen by us).<br />

Facultative synonyms: Stereocaulon Ieporinum TH. FR. De Stereocaulis et Pilophoris Commentatio:<br />

25 (1857). - Stereocaulon granulosum LAUR. ex HARTUNG, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten<br />

Naturwiss. 15 (4): 147, 151 (1857). - Stereocaulon tomentosum var. granulosum (LAuR.) OLN.<br />

Mem. Real. Acad. Ci. Barcelona, ser. 3,16: 47 (1921).O - Stereocaulon maderense TUCK. Lichenes, in:<br />

United States Exploring Expedition, 17, Botany I, Lower Cryptogamia: 122 (1874). - Stereocaulon<br />

Ieporinum [var.] a. elatum TH. FR. De Stereoc. et Pilophor. Comment.: 25 (1857). - Stereocaulon<br />

sphaerophoroides [f.] a. elatum (TH. FR.) TH. FR. Monogr. Stereoc. et Pilophor.: 349 (sep. 45) (1858).<br />

- Stereocaulon Ieporinum [var.] j3. pumilum TH. FR. De Stereoc. et Pilophor. Comment.: 25 (1857).<br />

- Stereocaulon sphaerophoroides [f.] j3. pumilum (TH. FR.) TH. FR. Monogr. Stereoc. et Pilophor.:<br />

349 (sep. 45) (1858).<br />

Exsicc.: ALMB. Lich. Afric. Fasc. IV (1974) no. 86, as St. sphaerophoroides (FH). - BORN~LLER,<br />

Plant. Exs. Mader. (1900) no. 124 (LD, PR), no. 125 (LD), no. 126 (GB, LD, PR), as St. sphaerophoroides;<br />

no. 127, as St. denudatum var. pulvinatum (LD). - BORNMULLER, Plant. Exs. Canar. (1901) no. 3238<br />

(LD, PR), no. 3244 (LD), as St. sphaerophoroides. - BOURGEAU, Plant. Canar. no. 37 (1846-47), as St.<br />

botryosum (PC-HUE). - BOURGEAU, Plant. Canar., iter secund. no. 1594 (1856), as St. ramulosum (c,<br />

PC-HUE). - HEPP, Flechten Europas Band VI, Heft 1 1 (1857) no. 305, as St. granulosum (FH, FH-TUCK,<br />

PC-HUE, s). - HUSNOT Plant. Canar. no. 213 (1866 ?), as St. sphaerophoroides (PC-HUE). - Krypt. Exs.<br />

Vindob. Cent. VIII (1902) no. 767, as St. sphaerophoroides (c, FH, LD, PR, S, US, WELC); Cent. XLIII<br />

(1960) no. 4239, as St. sphaerophoroides (FH, s). - MANDON, Lich. Mad2re no. 49 (date ?), as St.<br />

sphaerophoroides (BM, FH-TUCK, PC-HUE, s). - TAV. Lich. Lusit. Sel. Exs. Fasc. I11 (1955) no. 65, as St.<br />

sphaerophoroides (FH); Fasc. X (1968) no. 238, as St. sphaerophoroides (FH). - VEZDA, Lich. Sel. Exs.<br />

Fasc. V (1961) no. 113, as St. sphaerophoroides (FH).<br />

Icon.: TH. FR. 1858, P1. IX, fig. 4, as St. sphaerophoroides. - HEPP 1853-67 (1857) no. 305, as<br />

St. sphaerophoroides (spores). - NYL. 1860, P1. VII, fig. 9, as St. sphaerophoroides (conidia and conidiophores).<br />

- DUVIGN. 1956, fig. 9, as St. sphaerophoroides (sections of pseudopod. and apoth.).<br />

Mat. chim.: atranorin, lobaric acid, stictic acid, norstictic acid; possibly also constictic<br />

acid and consalazinic acid. This is the only species of Stereocaulon in which lobaric acid and<br />

stictic acid are known with certainty to coexist.<br />

Distrib.: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands. Unverified record (almost certainly incorrect):<br />

U. S. A., N. Carolina (NYLANDER, 1860; CURTIS, 1867). Erroneous record: Ecuador (KREMPELHUBER<br />

1861), = St. myriocarpum TH. FR.<br />

Remarks: related to St. tomentosum FR. An interesting species not only for its peculiar<br />

chemistry but also on account of lacking cephalodia. DUVIGNEAUD (1956) states that its<br />

phyllocladia contain Scytonema-filaments in addition to the normal phycobiont. Since<br />

1858 the name St. sphaerophoroides TUCK. has been consistently used for this species. This<br />

is however incorrect for the following reasons. The protologue of St. sphaerophoroides<br />

TUCK., An Enumeration of North American Lichenes, p. 52, footnote (1845) mentions no<br />

locality for the species, but states that it was collected by L. GOULDING (ex herb. LAMBERT).<br />

TH. FRIES (1858) adopted the name St. sphaerophoroides TUCK. for the present species, placing<br />

his own St. leporinum TH. FR. in synonymy, and stating that he had received the type material<br />

of TUCKERMAN'S species and found it to be the same as St. leporinum. This original specimen<br />

was labelled "In monte ignivomo Ind. Occid.? Rev. L. GOULDING", and we have seen it in<br />

UPS-TH FR; it is not the present species, but St. virgatum AcH., a West Indian endemic. TH.<br />

FRIES was therefore mistaken in identifying it with his St. leporinum. The protologue of<br />

Acc. to ZAHLBRUCKNER, Cat. Lich. Univ.; not seen by us. If it is based on LAURER'S epithet it<br />

is an illegitimate homonym; cfr. St. tomentosum [var.] a. granulosum SCHAER. Enum. Crit. Lich. Europ. :<br />

181 (1850), a nomen confusum (see p. 331).

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