McCune, B./ Rosentreter, R. 2007: Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin. - Monographs in North American Lichenology. Volume 1. Northwest Lichenologists, Ltd., Corvallis.. 105 pp. [RLL List # 206 / Rec.# 29002] Keywords: NORTHWEST USA/ COLUMBIA BASIN/ OREGON/ WASHINGTON/ IDAHO/ KEYS/ NEW TAXA/ RHIZOPLACA
Abstract: [A delightful new book which, after a few brief pages of introduction, is basically a huge, illustrated key with hundreds of color photographs. Not only are there specimen photos, but the authors include photographs of spores, thallus and ascocarp sections (sometimes illustrating chemical test reactions), closeups of ascocarps, and other thallus structures; also includes a color illustrated glossary. New: Rhizoplaca haydenii subsp. arbuscula Rosentreter subsp. nov., R. idahoensis Rosentreter & McCune sp. nov., R. melanophthalma subsp. cerebriformis Rosentreter & B. D. Ryan subsp. nov., R. melanophthalma subsp. crispa Rosentreter & B. D. Ryan subsp. nov.