The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Nordic Lichen Flora Volume 4 – Parmeliaceae

På svenska

Editor

Summary, in English

The lichen flora of the Nordic countries, containing about 2000 species, is regarded as one of the best known in the world. Lichenological research of the region has been continuous since the days of Erik Acharius (1757–1819), the ”father of lichenology”, but it is a sad fact that there is no modern flora treatment of the region's impressive lichen flora, the last attempt in the 1870s being that of Th. M. Fries, his major work, Lichenographia scandinavica, unfortunately remained unfinished. A number specialist lichenologists have united forces to produce this much needed Nordic Lichen Flora. This, the fourth volume dedicated to the family Parmeliaceae, includes 152 species, the editors, Arne Thell and Roland Moberg, together with 11 colleagues, treating the 41 genera as separate chapters. The corticolous lichens of the Parmeliaceae are often dominant in the landscape of northern boreal forests, as is the terricolous family Cladoniaceae, the reindeer lichens, the family to be treated in the next volume of the Nordic Lichen Flora.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Publication/Series

Nordic Lichen Flora

Volume

4

Document type

Book

Publisher

Nordic Lichen Society

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-85221-24-0