Compendium of the Lichens and Associated Fungi of Alaska

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Publications on the lichens of Alaska go back 182 years, but a modern, comprehensive review of literature on the diversity of Alaskan lichens has been lacking. The authors present a compendium of 2,126 accepted taxa fully referenced with published reports from Alaska and their exact localities.

Of these 2,126 taxa, 1827 are lichen fungi, 277 are lichen-associated fungi and 22 are putatively saprotrophic fungi usually treated in lichenological studies. Nearly half of all species have been first reported since 1997. A total of 1,594 names are treated as synonyms or misapplications, and 140 further taxa are excluded as erroneous or doubtful.

Contents

Introduction   5
Alaskan geography and recent history   5
A brief history of lichenological studies in Alaska   6
Major Alaskan lichen collectors and the herbaria where their collections reside   13
Diversity of Alaskan lichens and associated fungi   20
Current names in use, described from Alaska   22
Taxonomy and nomenclature   26
Synonyms and misapplied names   28
How literature records were screened and treated   29
Conventions, symbols, explanations, abbreviations   30
Acknowledgments   31

Catalog of accepted taxa and their synonyms   33

Appendix A. Excluded and doubtful taxa   454
Appendix B. Nomenclatural notes   468
References   472

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