Lobaria

Lobaria

Taxobox | name = "Lobaria"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Lobaria pulmonaria"
regnum = Fungi
divisio = Ascomycota
classis = Lecanoromycetes
ordo = Lecanorales
subordo = Peltigerineae
familia = Lobariaceae
genus = "Lobaria"
genus_authority = (Schreb.) Hoffm.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Lobaria hallii"
"Lobaria linita"
"Lobaria pulmonaria"
"Lobaria ravenelii"
"Lobaria retigera"
"Lobaria scorbiculata"

"Lobaria" is a genus of lichens commonly known as "lungwort" or "lung moss" because their physical shape somewhat resembles a lung. "Lobaria" species are unusual in that they have a three-part symbiosis, containing a fungus, an alga and a cyanobacterium, the presence of the cyanobacterium allowing nitrogen fixation. Their sensitivity to toxins makes them an excellent marker of ecosystem health, and they are often found in ecological climax communities such as the old growth forests of northwestern North America.

Under the doctrine of signatures, "Lobaria pulmonaria" is sometimes used to treat respiratory infections, although there is no peer-reviewed data to support this.

External links

* [http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T135079.HTM Links to photos of various "Lobaria" spp]
* [http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/PrintablePages/herbMonograph/0,11475,4105,00.html Monograph on herbal uses of "lobaria"]
* [http://www.mcelroy.ca/bushlog/20031003.shtml A private naturalist's discussion of "Lobaria"]
* [http://www.lichen.com/bigpix/section.html Cross-section showing all three symbionts]


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