Comprehensive Description
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Pseudoparmelia scotophylla
Parmelia scotophylla Kurokawa in Kurokawa and Filson, 1975:45 [type collection: Ardglen Gap, Liverpool Range, New South Wales, Australia, Kurokawa 5174 (TNS, holotype; MEL, isotype) (not seen)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate, whitish to dark mineral gray, 4–12 cm broad; lobes sublinear, congested, apically subrotund, 1–2 mm wide; upper surface plane, shiny, becoming densely isidiate, the isidia cylindrical, simple, the tips blackened; lower surface dark brown or blackening, sparsely to moderately rhizinate, the rhizines brown or black, simple. Apothecia (from type description) substipitate, 6 mm in diameter, the amphithecium isidiate; spores 8, 5 × 7–8 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K+ yellow turning red, C−, KC−, P+ orange; atranorin and salazinic acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—Australia.
HABITAT.—On rocks in dry shrubby sclerophyll woodlands.
- 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
