Ephebe lanata

Ephebe lanata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lichinomycetes
Order:	Lichinales
Family:	Lichinaceae
Genus:	Ephebe
Species:	E. lanata
Binomial name
Ephebe lanata (L.) Vain. (1888)
Synonyms
Lichen lanatus L. (1753)

Ephebe lanata is a species of filamentous lichen in the family Lichinaceae, and the type species of the genus Ephebe. The lichen was first described as a new species by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Lichen lanatus.[1] Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio transferred it to Ephebe in 1888.[2] In North America, it is known colloquially as the "rockshag lichen".[3]

References

1. Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1155.
2. Vainio, E.A. (1888). "Notulae de synonymia lichenum". Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 14: 20–30.
3. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.