Paul Diederich
Research associate of the
National Museum of Natural History
25, rue Münster
L-2160 Luxembourg
Research
Taxonomy and phylogeny of lichens and lichenicolous fungi.
Lichen checklist and distribution atlas from Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France.
Lichens from the Indian Ocean.
Websites
Selected Publications
Lichens from Belgium and Luxembourg
Diederich, P. & E. Sérusiaux (2000) The lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Belgium and Luxembourg. An annotated checklist. Musée national d'histoire naturelle, Luxembourg, 208 pp.
Sérusiaux, E., P. Diederich & J. Lambinon (2004) Les macrolichens de Belgique, du Luxembourg et du nord de la France. Clés de détermination. Ferrantia 40: 188 pp.
Lichens from Extra-European Countries
Diederich, P., R. Lücking, A. Aptroot, H. J. M. Sipman, U. Braun, T. Ahti & D. Ertz (2017) New species and new records of lichens and lichenicolous fungi for the Seychelles. Herzogia 30: 182–236.
Aptroot, A., P. Diederich, E. Sérusiaux & H. Sipman (1997) Lichens and lichenicolous fungi from New Guinea. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 64: 220 pp.
Nash III, T. H., B. D. Ryan, P. Diederich, C. Gries & F. Bungartz (2004) Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol. 2. Arizona State University, 742 pp.
Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Lichenicolous Fungi
Diederich, P., J. D. Lawrey & D. Ertz (2018) The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa. Bryologist 121: 340–426.
Lawrey, J. D. & P. Diederich (2003) Lichenicolous fungi: interactions, evolution and biodiversity. The Bryologist 106: 80-120.
Diederich, P. (1996) The lichenicolous heterobasidiomycetes. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 61: 198 pp.
Ertz, D., C. Christnach, M. Wedin & P. Diederich (2005) A world monograph of the genus Plectocarpon (Roccellaceae, Arthoniales). Bibliotheca Lichenologica 91: 155 pp.
Diederich, P., M. Zhurbenko & J. Etayo (2002) The lichenicolous species of Odontotrema (syn. Lethariicola) (Ascomycota, Ostropales). Lichenologist 34: 479-501.
Diederich, P. & J. Etayo (2000) A synopsis of the genera Skyttea, Llimoniella and Rhymbocarpus (lichenicolous Ascomycota, Leotiales). Lichenologist 32: 423-485.
Diederich, P., D. Ertz, J. D. Lawrey, M. Sikaroodi & W. A. Untereiner (2013) Molecular data place the hyphomycetous lichenicolous genus Sclerococcum close to Dactylospora (Eurotiomycetes) and S. parmeliae in Cladophialophora (Chaetothyriales). Fungal Diversity 58: 61–72.
Diederich, P., J. D. Lawrey, M. Sikaroodi, P. van den Boom & D. Ertz (2012) Briancoppinsia, a new coelomycetous genus of Arthoniaceae (Arthoniales) for the lichenicolous Phoma cytospora, with a key to this and similar taxa. Fungal Diversity 52: 1–12.
Diederich, P., J. D. Lawrey, M. Sikaroodi & P. M. Gillevet (2011) A new lichenicolous teleomorph is related to plant pathogens in Laetisaria and Limonomyces (Basidiomycota, Corticiales). Mycologia 103: 525–533.
Diederich, P. & J. Lawrey (2007) New lichenicolous, muscicolous, corticolous and lignicolous taxa of Burgoa s. l. and Marchandiomyces s. l. (anamorphic Basidiomycota), a new genus for Omphalina foliacea, and a catalogue and a key to the non-lichenized, bulbilliferous basidiomycetes. Mycological Progress 6: 61-80.