Flora of Australia volume 56A: Lichens [part four]. McCarthy, Patrick M. and Katy Mallett, editors.
BAC19498 CSIRO Publishing/ABRS, Collingwood: 2004. Octavo, paperback, 222 pp., illustrations. BRAND NEW.<P> Covers some of the most spectacular and ecologically significant Australian lichens. This volume provides treatments of <I>Pertusaria</I> and <I>Lecanora</I>, two of the most species-rich crustose genera on rock and bark in Australia. Also included here is <I>Usnea</I>, a genus of robust and often luxuriant lichens ranging from almost rigid tufts on exposed, alpine rocks to metre-long skeins hanging from the canopies of temperate rainforest trees. Complete or partial accounts of nine families are provided in Volume 56A, including 17 genera and 287 species and infra-specific taxa. This brings to 1168 the number of Australian lichen species and infra-specific taxa treated in the four volumes published so far. A hardcover is also available [stock id 19499]. We will take orders for future volumes. We also hold comprehensive back stocks of published volumes. ISBN: 9780643090576 $80.00AUD Click here to order or message the dealer
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