Lichen fagineus Linnaeus, 1753

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 610-650 : 626

Lichen fagineus Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2: 1141. 1753, nom. utique rej.

"Habitat in Europa, vestiens truncos Fagi." RCN: 8171.

Type not designated.

Original material: none traced.

Note: See Jørgensen & al. (in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 115: 307. 1994) who, noting that the name has been applied to a number of grey, sorediate, crustose species, treated this as a nomen non satis nota and successfully proposed (in Taxon 43: 647. 1994) it for rejection.