• Source: Stereocaulon alpinum

Stereocaulon alpinum is a species of fungus belonging to the family Stereocaulaceae. It is similar to Stereocaulon paschale but differs from it in containing cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc while S. paschale contains cyanobacteria of the genus Stigonema, which have a darker colour than Nostoc.




Ecology


Stereocaulon alpinum is a known host species to lichenicolous fungi, which are pathogenic or commensal species living on the surface or in the thallus of the lichen. These include:

Arthonia stereocaulina
Catillaria stereocaulorum
Cercidospora stereocaulorum
Diploschistes muscorum
Endococcus nanellus
Lasiosphaeriopsis stereocaulicola
Lichenopeltella stereocaulorum
Lichenosticta dombrovskae
Merismatum decolorans
Opegrapha stereocaulicola
Polycoccum trypethelioides
Rhymbocarpus stereocaulorum
Scutula stereocaulorum
Stigmidium beringicum
Taeniolella christiansenii




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Stereocaulon alpinum
• Stereocaulon
• Elke Mackenzie
• Stereocaulon ramulosum
• Lichenopeltella stereocaulorum
• Cercidospora stereocaulorum
• Scutula stereocaulorum
• Endococcus nanellus
• Arthonia stereocaulina
• Spot test (lichen)