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Ephebe lanata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Lichinomycetes
Order:	Lichinales
Family:	Lichinaceae
Genus:	Ephebe
Species:	E. lanata
Binomial name
Ephebe lanata (L.) Vain. (1888)
Synonyms
Lichen lanatus L. (1753)

Ephebe lanata is a species of filamentous lichen in the family Lichinaceae, and the type species of the genus Ephebe. The lichen was first described as a new species by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in his seminal 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Lichen lanatus. Finnish lichenologist Edvard August Vainio transferred it to Ephebe in 1888. In North America, it is known colloquially as the "rockshag lichen".

References

1. Linnaeus, Carl (1753). Species plantarum (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. p. 1155.
2. Vainio, E.A. (1888). "Notulae de synonymia lichenum". Meddelanden af Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 14: 20–30.
3. Brodo, Irwin M.; Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran; Sharnoff, Stephen (2001). Lichens of North America. Yale University Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-300-08249-4.

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