John Alan ("Jack") Elix (born 1941), Australian lichenologist. Identified lichen secondary metabolites. Honored with an Acharius Medal in 2004.

IPNI standard form: Elix

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 19 taxon names authored by John Alan Elix

Publications

• Elix, J.A. & Adler, M.T. 1987. A new species of Flavoparmelia and Flavopunctelia (lichenized Ascomycotina) from Argentina. Mycotaxon 30: 335–338. Cyberliber Reference page. 

• Elix, J.A. 2016. New species and new records of buellioid lichens from islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Telopea 19: 1–10. DOI: 10.7751/telopea9265 Reference page. 

• Elix, J.A. 2017. A new species of Dimelaena (Physciaceae, Ascomycota) from Victoria, Australia. Australasian Lichenology 80: 38–40. RLL List # 246 / Rec.# 38651 – Recent Literature on Lichens ABRS (PDF) Reference page. 

• Elix, J.A. 2017. Three new species and eight new records of saxicolous buellioid lichens (Caliciaceae, Ascomycota) from New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands. Australasian Lichenology 81: 68–78. RLL List # 249 / Rec.# 39443 – Recent Literature on Lichens ABRS (PDF) Reference page. 

• Elix, J.A. 2019. A new species and new records of buellioid lichens (Caliciaceae, Ascomycota) from the Kerguelen Islands. Australasian Lichenology 84: 16–25. RLL List # 257 / Rec.# 41076 – Recent Literature on Lichens RLL (PDF) Reference page. 

References

• Kantvilas, G. 2005. Jack Elix awarded the Acharius Medal at IAL5. Australasian Lichenology 56, page 2. (PDF)
• Nash III, T.H. 2004. Acharius medallists: Jack Elix. International Association for Lichenology
• McCarthy, P.M., Kantvilas, G. & Louwhoff, S.H.J.J. 2001. Lichenological contributions in honour of Jack Elix. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 78.