In the south, the San Gabriel, Santa Monica, Santa Ynez, Tehachapi, and other ranges have been explored for lichens since the 1870's. Mountain ranges include the Sierra Nevada along most of the eastern boundary, the coast ranges, and desert ranges. The Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran deserts are represented in the southern part. The state includes a wide range of habitats for lichens: deserts, sand dunes, mountain ranges, rain forests, montane forests, oak savanna, chaparral, and seacoast. Yearly precipitation ranges from under 2 inches (5 cm) in the deserts to over 65 inches (165 cm) in the north coastal counties.Įlevations range from 282 feet (86m) below sea level in Death Valley to 14,494 ft.
The state includes 158,297 square miles (409,990 km 2) and extends from 32☃2' to 42° north latitude.Ĭlimates vary greatly according to elevation and other factors. The great geographic diversity in the state of California is responsible for the relatively large number of lichens found here.
I consider it a working document that is subject to change.Īlthough a catalog is never complete, the current version should be made easily available to lichenologists and collectors in California and elsewhere. The catalog is intended to provide a current, comprehensive picture of the species known to occur in California. Now, seven years later, so many changes have occurred that it is considered best to publish the entire revised catalog. The need for a revised lichen checklist for California became markedly apparent, particularly because of an increased interest in lichen collecting in California.Īn online revised catalog was published in 2006 in Constancea. Since then, California lichen material has been examined critically in many genera, resulting in recognition of many new taxa and necessitating many name changes. Weber that were contributed to the cryptogamic herbarium at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, where they are deposited. The Tucker & Jordan catalog was originally based on literature records assembled by William A. The 34 years since publication of the first catalog of California lichens (Tucker & Jordan 1979) have seen enormous changes in accepted names of lichens, particularly an increase in generic names. Key words: California Flora Lichens Lichenicoles (citations through 2011, and some from 2012).
The bibliography includes 1158 publications pertaining to California lichens Synonyms are cross-referenced to the current names.Īccepted names are listed first, followed by names of taxa that are either excluded or not confirmed. The lichen flora of California includes about 35% of the 5,246 species and 52% of the 646 genera reported for the continental United States and Canada.Īll known references are given that cite each species as occurring in California. The number of genera is 340, an increase of 43 since 2006. This second revision of the California lichen catalog reports 1,869 taxa at species level and below (of which 58 are recognized at the level of variety, subspecies, or forma) for the state, an increase of about 295 taxa since 2006, and 565 taxa since the 1979 catalog. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA all or part of a lichen name into the search box. Constancea 85: Tucker, Catalog of California LichensĬATALOG OF LICHENS, LICHENICOLES AND ALLIED FUNGI IN CALIFORNIA (second revision)Ĭheadle Center for Biodiversity, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106–9610 USA
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