Comprehensive Description
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Pseudoparmelia epileuca
Pseudoparmelia epileuca (Hale) Hale, 1974:190.
Parmelia epileuca Hale, 1972:343 [type collection: District Inhambane, Moçambique, Schelpe 4461 (BOL, holotype; isotypes in LD, US)].
DESCRIPTIONS.—Thallus closely adnate on bark, ashy white, 3–5 cm broad; lobes sublinear, contiguous, with smooth dark rimmed margins, 1.5–2.0 mm wide; upper surface plane, sorediate, the soralia orbicular, confluent with age; lower surface black, moderately rhizinate. Apothecia unknown.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC−, P+ red; atranorin and protocetraric acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—Kenya and Moçambique.
HABITAT.—On coconut and other trees in open forest or savanna up to 300 m elevation.
- 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
