Comprehensive Description
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Pseudoparmelia owariensis
Pseudoparmelia owariensis (Asahina) Hale, 1974:190.
Parmelia owariensis Asahina, 1953:135 [type collection: Inuyama, Province Owari, Japan, Asahina (TNS, lectotype)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate on rocks, whitish mineral gray, 2–5 cm broad; lobes sublinear, 0.5–2 mm wide; upper surface plane, continuous or cracked with age, isidiate-pustulate, the isidia coarse, short, cylindrical to irregularly inflated, bursting open apically; lower surface black, sparsely rhizinate. Apothecia unknown.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC+ faint purple violet, K−, atranorin, and divaricatic acid with associated unknowns.
DISTRIBUTION.—Africa, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan.
HABITAT.—On rocks in open areas at lower elevations.
- bibliographic citation
- Hale, Mason E., Jr. 1976. "A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Pseudoparmelia Lynge (Parmeliaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-62. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.31
