Comprehensive Description
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Psetuioparmelia zambiensis
Pseudoparmelia zambiensis (Hale) Hale, 1974:191.
Parmelia zambiensis Hale, 1972b:346 [type collection: Nyika Plateau, Zambia, Jellicoe 59 (BM, holotype; US, isotype)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus adnate on bark, greenish yellow, 4–6 cm broad; lobes subirregular, crowded, 2–3 mm wide, becoming lobulate toward the center; upper surface plane to rugulose, rimose with age; lower surface black, sparsely rhizinate, the rhizines thick, black. Apothecia common, adnate 2.5–3.0 mm in diameter; spores 8, 6 × 12 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K−, medulla K−, C−, KC− or KC+ faint rose, P−; usnic acid and divaricatic acid with associated unknowns.
DISTRIBUTION.—Central Africa.
HABITAT.—On trees in open areas at 2300 m.
- 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
