Publications

Gerlach A, Clerc P, Lücking R, Moncada B, Nobleza J, Ohmura Y, Dal Forno M. 2023. The genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) in the southern Philippines: a first phylogenetic approach. The Lichenologist 55: 451–480.

Lücking R, Moncada B, Dal Forno M. 2023. PhyloKey: A novel method to rapidly and reliably identify species in complex, species-rich genera, and an opportunity for "non-molecular museomics". The Lichenologist 55(5):181–192. doi:10.1017/S0024282923000415

Taer EC, Dal Forno M, Moncada B, Amoroso VB, Coritico FP. 2023. Lichens across Land Use Types of Mt. Musuan, Bukidnon, Southern Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 152(6A): 2077–86.

Coca LF, Gómez SG, Guillermo JG, Trujillo ET, Clavijo L, Zuluaga A, Dal Forno M, Lumbsch HT. 2023. Sulzbacheromyces leucodontium (Basidiomycota, Lepidostromataceae), a new species of basidiolichen widely distributed in the Neotropics. Phytotaxa 597 (2): 153–164. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.597.2.5

Erratum: Phytotaxa 612(2): 250. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.612.2.10

Pardo-De la Hoz CJ, Magain N, Piatkowski B, Cornet L, Dal Forno M, Miadlikowska J, François L. 2023. Ancient Radiation Explains Most Conflicts Among Gene Trees and Well-supported Phylogenomic Trees of Nostocalean Cyanobacteria. Systematic Biology 72 (3): 694–712, doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad008

Dal Forno M, Lawrey JD, Moncada B, Bungartz F, Grube M, Schuettpelz E, Lücking R. 2022. DNA barcoding of fresh and historical collections of lichen-forming basidiomycetes in the genera Cora and Corella (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae): a success story? Diversity 14 (4): 284.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Hodges M, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Parmotrema hypotropum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194661553A194678154.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Bungartz F, Batallas-Molina R, Dal Forno M, Howe, N., Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S, Spielmann A, Vargas, R. & Villella J. 2021. Parmotrema crinitum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194661476A194678149.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Howe, N., Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Parmeliopsis hyperopta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194660868A194678144.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Howe N, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Parmeliopsis ambigua. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194660719A194678139.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Dal Forno M, Howe N, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens, A., Petix, M., Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Parmelia squarrosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194660642A194678134.

Yahr R, Allen J, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Howe N, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Parmelia saxatilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194660573A194678129.

Allen J, Yahr R, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Hodges M, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S, Spielmann A & Villella J. 2021. Parmotrema perforatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194661584A194678159.

Allen J, Yahr R, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Dal Forno M, Howe, N., Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Melanohalea halei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194662493A194678204.

Allen J, Yahr R, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Calabria L, Dal Forno M, Howe N, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens A, Paquette H, Petix M, Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Flavoparmelia baltimorensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194662214A194678194.

Allen J, Yahr R, Lymbery C, Batallas-Molina R, Bungartz F, Dal Forno M, Howe N, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Mertens, A., Petix, M., Reese Næsborg R, Roberts, F, Sharrett S & Villella J. 2021. Canoparmelia caroliniana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194662208A194678189.

Dal Forno M, Kaminsky L, Lücking R. 2021. Cora timucua. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T175711802A175712343. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T175711802A175712343.en.

Allen J, Beeching S, Bishop G, Dal Forno M, Hodges M, Lendemer J, McMullin T, Paquette H & Yahr R. 2020. Flavoparmelia caperata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T180096947A180096996.

Dal-Forno M, Lawrey JD, Sikaroodi M, Gillevet PM, Schuettpelz E, Lücking R. 2020. Extensive photobiont sharing in a rapidly-radiating cyanolichen clade. Molecular Ecology (from the cover) 30: 1755–1776. First published: 20 Oct 2020.

Lücking R, Kaminsky L, Perlmutter GB, Lawrey JL, Dal Forno M. 2020. Cora timucua (Hygrophoraceae), a new and potentially extinct, previously misidentified basidiolichen of Florida inland scrub documented from historical collections. The Bryologist 123(4): 657–673.

Dal Forno M, Kaminsky L, Rosentreter R, McMullin T, Aptroot A, Lücking R. 2019. A first phylogenetic assessment of Dictyonema s.lat. in southeastern North America reveals three new basidiolichens, described in honor of James D. Lawrey. Plant & Fungal Systematics 64 (2): 383–392.

Lücking R, Dal Forno M, Wil-Wolf S. 2019. James Donald (‛Jim’) Lawrey: a tribute to a unique career in lichenology. Plant & Fungal Systematics 64 (2): 117–135.

Dal-Forno M, Moncada B, Lücking R. 2018. Sticta aongstroemii, a newly recognized species in the S. damicornis morphodeme (Lobariaceae) potentially endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The Lichenologist 50(6): 691–696.

Graves G & Dal Forno M. 2018. Persistence of Transported Lichen at a Hummingbird Nest Site. Northeastern Naturalist 25(4): 656–661.

Dal-Forno M, Bungartz F, Lücking R, Yánez-Ayabaca A, Lawrey JD. 2017. High levels of endemism in Galapagos basidiolichens. Fungal Diversity 85 (1): 45–73.

Lücking R, Dal-Forno M, Moncada B, et al. (50 more authors). 2017. Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth's seventieth birthday. Fungal Diversity 84 (1): 139–207.

Dal-Forno M, Lücking R, Bungartz F, Yánez-Ayabaca A, Marcelli MP, Spielmann AA, Coca LF, Chaves JL, Aptroot A, Sikaroodi M, Gillevet PM, Sipman HJM, Lawrey JD. 2016. From one to six: unrecognized species diversity in the genus Acantholichen P. M. Jørg. (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae). Mycologia 108(1): 38–55.

Ariyawansa HA, Hyde KD, Jayasiri SC, et al. (124 more authors including Dal-Forno M). 2015. Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75: 27–274.

Lawrey JD, Etayo J, Dal-Forno M, Driscoll KE, Diederich P. 2015. Molecular data support establishment of a new genus for the lichenicolous species Neobarya usneae (Hypocreales). The Bryologist 118 (1): 83–92.

Schmull M, Dal-Forno M, Lücking R, Cao S, Clardy J, Lawrey JD 2014. Dictyonema huaorani (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), a new lichenized basidiomycete from Amazonian Ecuador with presumed hallucinogenic properties. The Bryologist 117 (4): 386–394.

Lücking R, Dal-Forno M, Sikaroodi M, Gillevet PM, Bungartz F, Moncada B, Yánez-Ayabaca A, Coca LF, Chaves JD, Lawrey JD 2014. A single macrolichen constitutes hundreds of unrecognized species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (30): 11091–11096.

Lücking R, Lawrey JD, Gillevet PM, Sikaroodi M, Dal-Forno M, Berger SA. 2014. Multiple ITS haplotypes in the genome of the lichenized basidiomycete Cora inversa (Hygrophoraceae): Fact or artifact? Journal of Molecular Evolution 78: 148–162.

Lücking R, Dal-Forno M, Wilk K, Lawrey JD. 2013. Three new species of Dictyonema (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae) from Bolivia. Acta Nova 6 (1-2): 4–16.

Lücking R, Dal-Forno M, Lawrey JD, Bungartz, F, Holgado Rojas ME, Hernández JE, Marcelli MP, Moncada B, Morales EA, Nelsen MP, Paz E, Salcedo L, Spielmann AA, Wilk K, Will-Wolf S, Yánez-Ayabaca A. 2013. Ten new species of lichenized Basidiomycota in the genera Dictyonema and Cora (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), with a key to all accepted genera and species in the Dictyonema clade. Phytotaxa 139: 1–38.

Dal-Forno M, Lawrey JD, Sikaroodi M, Bhattarai S, Gillevet PM, Sulzbacher M, Lücking R. 2013. Starting from scratch: evolution and diversification of the lichen thallus in the basidiolichen Dictyonema (Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae). Fungal Biology 117 (9): 584–598.

Gostel MR, Dal-Forno M, Weeks A. 2013. A navigation guide to cyberinfrastructure tools for botanical and lichenological systematics research. Plant Science Bulletin 59 (3): 111–130. Website: http://www.botany.org/students_corner/systematics_resources.php

Yánez A, Dal-Forno M, Bungartz F, Lücking R, Lawrey JD. 2012. A first assessment of Galapagos basidiolichens. Fungal Diversity 52(1): 225–244.

Lumbsch HT, Ahti T, Altermann S, et al. (102 more authors including Dal-Forno M). 2011. One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. Phytotaxa 18: 1–127.

Dal-Forno M, Eliasaro S. 2010. Two new species of Graphidaceae (lichenized Ascomycota) from Brazil. Mycotaxon 112: 15–20.

Dal-Forno M, Eliasaro S. 2010. Four New Species of Graphis (Ostropales: Graphidaceae) from Brazil. The Lichenologist 42(1): 77–81.

Torres-Boeger MR, Soffiatti P, Gomes-Souto MA, Budchen M, Bagatini KP, Dal Forno M. 2010. Functional morphology of two Lepismium species (Rhipsalideae, Cactaceae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 81: 383–400.

Dal-Forno M & Eliasaro, S. 2009. Two new species of Acanthothecis (lichenized Ascomycota) from Brazil. Mycotaxon 109: 43–47.

Non-Refereed Articles (13)

Dal Forno M, Ellis C, Myllys L. 2023. The Lichenologist Editor’s Choice Award. The Lichenologist 55: 441.

Dal Forno M, Wen J. 2023. Plant and lichen discovery in the southern Philippines. The Plant Press 26 (2): 1–5. Available at: https://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol26no2.pdf

Benjamin DR, O’Kennon R, Dal Forno M. 2021. The importance of looking: Rhytidhysteron rufulum in Texas. FUNGI Magazine 38 (14:5): 38–40.

IAL9 Organizing Committee (Cáceres MES, Spielmann AA, Dal Forno M, Canêz L, Koch N) and IAL9 Social Media Committee (Fávaro A, Junior CF, Pereira LC). 2021. The 9th Symposium of the International Association for Lichenology "Unlocking The Inner Lichen" Held Online in Brazil 01–06 August 2021. International Association for Lichenology Newsletter 54 (2): 13–17.

Mercado-Díaz, Dal Forno M, Koch N. 2021. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility: The Challenge of making Lichenology More “Idea-L”. International Association for Lichenology Newsletter 54 (2): 31–32.

Lücking R, Dal Forno M, Will-Wolf S. 2021. The Acharius medal: James D. Lawrey. International Association for Lichenology Newsletter 54 (2): 4–6.

Cáceres MES, Spielmann AA, Dal Forno M, Canêz L, Koch N. 2021. IAL9: International Association for Lichenology. In Hawksworth DL: MycoNews 2021: President’s message, IMA statutes, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news. IMA Fungus 12, 36.

Dal Forno M & Jacob J. 2020. Lichens of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Report submitted to the National Park Services.

Campbell K, Dal-Forno M, Mercado-Diaz J. 2018. The Christmas Lichen (Herpothallon rubrocinctum). Glimpses of Jamaica’s Natural History. Jamaica Journal 37, Nos. 1–2: back cover.

Dal-Forno M & Jacob J. 2018. Lichens of the Arlington Cemetery Amphitheater. Report submitted to the National Park Services.

Dal Forno M. 2016. We Are All Lichens. The Plant Press 19 (4): 1, 13–14. Available at: http://nmnh.typepad.com/files/vol19no4.pdf

Aptroot A, Mercado-Díaz JA, Bárcenas-Peña A, Cáceres MES, Coca LF, Dal-Forno M, Feuerstein SC, Herrera-Campos MA, Joshi S, Kirika PM, Kraichak E, Lumbsch HT, Miranda-González R, Moncada B, Nelsen MP, Pérez REP, Scharnagl K, Medina ES, Yánez-Ayabaca A, Lücking R. 2014. Rapid assessment of the diversity of “vehiculicolous” lichens on a thirty year old Ford Bronco truck in central Puerto Rico. FUNGI Magazine 7 (2-3): 22–27. Available at: http://www.fungimag.com/summer-2014-articles/LR1%20V7I2%2022-27%20Vehiculicolous.pdf

Lücking R, Dal-Forno M, Moncada B, Chaves JL, Lawrey JD. 2014. The Enchanted Jungle. FUNGI Magazine 7 (2-3): 28–31. Available at: http://www.fungimag.com/summer-2014-articles/LR1%20V7I2%2028-31%20Jungle.pdf

Moncada B, Lawrey JD, Chaves JL, Dal Forno M, Lücking R. 2012. Lichens of the Costa Rican Premontane Wet Forest. Available at: https://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/guides/guide/396