Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lichens in the middle of the unexplored Great Basin Desert of the American West. Jason Hollinger and colleagues with a great paper full of new taxonomic insights, detailed photos, and ecological understanding. doi.org/10.3398/064.... 051 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 16/07/2026European Invades Local Outdoor Basketball Court, Dominates Baseline: Bacidina caligans New to North America. (lichenized fungi) doi.org/10.1639/0747... 020 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A new species from a tropical lichen genus, Pyrenula cascadensis, in a wet temperate Pacific Northwest forest. Haldeman, Miranda & McCune doi.org/10.1639/0007... 0101 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Foundational article on Micarea -- this global context should facilitate much-needed work on the North American species and those of other regions. Open access. Leena Myllys and 14 other authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 010 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Another big form genus, Lecanora, bites the dust. Actually, it started a while ago. These changes will affect names for many species on all continents. Ivanovich-Hichins et al. in the latest Lichenologist. doi.org/10.1017/S002... 083 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Lichen news -- lichens new -- from Colorado USA. Two new species of Caloplaca s.l. to science, Tassiloa friogranitica and Pyrenodesmia praemonatana, plus 32 species of lichens and allied fungi newly documented in Colorado. By Manzitto-Tripp, Watts & Raynor. Open access. doi.org/10.17348/jbr... 082 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Big changes for a small genus of tiny cyanolichens, Arctomia. Ekman, Svensson & Westberg 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 041 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 01/11/2025The lichen genus Protoblastenia mushrooms in Finland: "... based on morphology and molecular data (nuITS rDNA sequences). 20 species were recognised, with 16 species being newly described here..." Sure to be found in N Am and elsewhere... mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/162802 (Pykälä & Myllys 2025) 0112 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 26/09/2025New key to N Am for former Sarcogyne. Unlike previous treatments, no Euro taxa of Acarospora or Sarcogyne with carbonized epihymenium were found in N Am, except A. lapponica... and the lichenicolous Sarcogyne pusilla. Knudsen et al. MycoKeys 122: 123–148 (2025), DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.162675 010 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The inimitable Jason Hollinger demonstrating how he trims rocks while preparing specimens of saxicolous crusts. I have tried his method with a battery powered mini angle grinder with thin diamond blade, clamping it to a stool, and it worked great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCcY... 030 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Lichens! Rhizocarpaceae revised: Catolechia, Poeltinula, & Rhizocarpon refined, Epilichen to Catolechia, R. hochstetteri complex to Poeltinula, and Rehmia resurrected. Big changes affecting many areas in the world! Möller et al. 2025. Fungal Syst. and Evol. 16:215–231. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2025.16.12 091 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Common Lichens of Northern Alaska. This new short introduction to lichens produced by two scientists in the National Park Service helps open peoples' eyes to conspicuous species that they have never seen before! Very limited print run, but formatted pdfs are available: irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Re... 0264 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Pseudosolorina split from Solorina and Solorina crocoides split from S. crocea. The first part is easy because the species with orange below remain in Solorina. doi: 10.3390/jof11030169. Zheng et al. 2025. Journal of Fungi. 050 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 30/03/2025A big revision for the Lecanora saligna group -- six new species in Lecanoropsis. This is a common group of crustose lichens in western North America and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. 0113 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Wow, fixed already in Index Fungorum. Lecanora phryganitis lives. 120 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 22/01/2025eDNA and traditional biocrust sampling each have blind spots for biodiversity but tell a similar ecological story of disturbance in Artemisia steppe. The Bryologist, 128(1):1-15 (2025). doi.org/10.1639/0007... 1134 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Vagrant Rhizoplaca get a deeper look. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 094 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Cladonia galindezii and C. andereggii, epodetiate relatives of C. cariosa in western North America doi.org/10.1639/0007... 1111 0
Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · 13/01/2025New species for N Am from Colorado with a useful key. 171 0