Stereocaulon incrustatum

{{Short description|Species of lichen}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = G5 | status_system = TNC | status_ref = <ref name=NS>{{cite NatureServe |id=2.122070 |title=''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' |access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref> | taxon = Stereocaulon incrustatum | authority = [[Heinrich Gustav Flörke|Flörke]] (1819) }}

'''''Stereocaulon incrustatum''''' is a species of [[snow lichen]] belonging to the family [[Stereocaulaceae]].<ref name="Mycobank">{{cite web |title=Stereocaulon incrustatum |url=https://www.mycobank.org/page/Name%20details%20page/field/Mycobank%20%23/405988 |website=www.mycobank.org |access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref>

Forms and varieties: * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' f. ''gracile''<ref name="Mycobank" /> * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' f. ''gracilis''<ref name="Mycobank" /> * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' f. ''incrustatum''<ref name="Mycobank" /> * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' var. ''abduanum''<ref name="Mycobank" /> * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' var. ''elaturn''<ref name="Mycobank" /> * ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' var. ''incrustatum''<ref name="Mycobank" />

==Ecology== ''Stereocaulon incrustatum'' is a known host to the [[lichenicolous fungus]] species ''[[Rhymbocarpus stereocaulorum]]''.<ref name="Zhurbenko 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Zhurbenko |first1=Mikhail P. |date=2010 |title=Lichenicolous fungi and lichens growing on ''Stereocaulon'' from the Holarctic, with a key to the known species |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikhail-Zhurbenko/publication/348232351_Lichenicolous_fungi_and_lichens_growing_on_Stereocaulon_from_the_Holarctic_with_a_key_to_the_known_species/links/5ff4372b45851553a01e2611/Lichenicolous-fungi-and-lichens-growing-on-Stereocaulon-from-the-Holarctic-with-a-key-to-the-known-species.pdf |journal=Opuscula Philolichenum |volume=8 |pages=9-39}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Stereocaulaceae]] [[Category:Lichen species]] [[Category:Lichens described in 1819]] [[Category:Taxa named by Heinrich Gustav Flörke]]