More lichen resources for ID

I'll be updating this as I find new items helpful.

List of lichen keys at Mycology.net (most of these are for specific taxa and/or geographic locations):
http://www.mycology.net/Content/MNetGroupContent.cfm?MID=133&GID=141

Catalog of the Colorado Flora: a Biodiversity Baseline
Lichens: Weber and Wittmann, electronic version 11-Mar-00
https://www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/sites/default/files/attached-files/lichens.pdf

Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (CNALH): searchable databases, checklists by area, etc. This is a major aid, with images of herbarium specimens, most georeferenced.
Generate checklists by area and taxon: http://lichenportal.org/portal/checklists/dynamicmap.php?interface=checklist
Searching at CNALH: http://lichenportal.org/portal/collections/harvestparams.php

New York State Museum Lichen collections: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/biology/botany-mycology/collections (info at http://lichenportal.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=81)

Research checklist/keys for Florida: http://lichenportal.org/portal/projects/index.php?proj=509
Colorado lichen checklist/keys: http://lichenportal.org/portal/projects/index.php?proj=510

Field-oriented keys to Florida Lichens; Florida Museum of Natural History; Rosenstreter
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herbarium/lib/pdf/Rosentreter_Field_oriented_keys_to_the_Florida_lichens_Dec_2015.pdf

Steve Sharnoff, Lichen reference photos, index pages: http://www.sharnoffphotos.com/lichens/lichens_home_index.html

Posted on December 2, 2018 02:45 PM by slwhiteco