Flora of Australia, volume 56A: Lichens [part four].

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing/ABRS, 2004.
Octavo, dustwrapper, 222 pp. colour photographs, text illustrations, maps.

Covers some of the most spectacular and ecologically significant Australian lichens. This volume provides treatments of Pertusaria and Lecanora, two of the most species-rich crustose genera on rock and bark in Australia. Also included here is Usnea, 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 paperback is also available [stock id 19498]. We will take orders for future volumes. We also hold comprehensive back stocks of published volumes.