Eimy Rivas Plata   (Rivas Plata)

Lichenologist

Addresses in 2009:

Department of Botany, The Field Museum 1400 South Lake Shore Drive. Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA

Biological Sciences Department, University of Illinois at Chicago 845 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Address in 2006:
Laboratorio de Cultivo de Tejidos Vegetales, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru

Published author of:

Coenogonium isidiosum (Breuss) Rivas Plata, Lücking, Umaña & Chaves, 2006

Coenogonium luteocitrinum Rivas Plata, Lücking & Umaña, 2006

Coenogonium magdalenae Rivas Plata, Lücking & Lizano, 2006

Coenogonium siquirrense f. denticulatum Rivas Plata & Lücking, 2006

Coenogonium strigosum Rivas Plata, Lücking & Chaves, 2006

Coenogonium isidiosum (Breuss) Rivas Plata, Lücking, Umaña & Chaves, 2006

Gyrotrema wirthii Rivas Plata, Lücking & Lumbsch, 2008

Gyalectidiuim viride Lücking, W.R.Buck & Rivas Plata, 2007

Selected publication

• Rivas Plata, E.; Lücking, R.; Aptroot, A.; Sipman, H.J.M.; Chaves, J.L.; Umaña, L. and Lizano, D. (2006) A first assessment of the Ticolichen biodiversity inventory in Costa Rica: the genus Coenogonium (Ostropales: Coenogoniaceae), with a world-wide key and checklist and a phenotype-based cladistic analysis. - Fungal Diversity 23: 255–321.   **[RLL List # 208 / Rec.# 29707] - (Recent Literature on Lichens)** (PDF File)