Comprehensive Description
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Relicina relicinella
Relicina relicinella (Nylander) Hale, 1974:485.
Parmelia relicinella Nylander 1885:215 [type-collection: Santarem, Brazil, Spruce 136 (H, lectotype; BM, G, P, isolectotypes)].
Thallus closely adnate on bark, 3–6 cm in diameter; lobes sublinear, 0.5–1.5 mm wide; bulbate cilia distinct, short; upper surface plane, continuous; lower surface black, densely rhizinate, the rhizines simple or sparsely branched. Apothecia common (frequency 100%), adnate, 0.5–1.5 mm in diameter, the disc concave to plane, the exciple coronate; spores 16–32, 3–4 × 5–6 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Medulla K−, C−, KC−, P+ red, usnic acid, fumarprotocetraric acid, and an unidentified P+ compound.
HABITAT.—On tree trunks and branches in rain forest at 100–200 m elevation.
DISTRIBUTION.—Colombia and Brazil.
- citation bibliographique
- Hale, Mason E., Jr. 1975. "A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Relicina (Parmeliaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.26
