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Pseudoparmelia zimbabwensis
Pseudoparmelia zimbabwensis (Hale) Hale, 1974:191.
Parmelia zimbabwensis Hale, 1972b:346 [type collection: Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Höeg (TRH, holotype; LD, US, isotypes)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate on rock, fragile, light mineral gray, 2–5 cm broad; lobes sub-linear, contiguous, black-marginate, 1.0–1.5 mm wide; upper surface plane to rugulose, in part pruinose, pustulate, the pustules thick, apically pruinose and finally erupting without soredial formation; lower surface black, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines black. Apothecia not seen.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC−, P+ red; atranorin and protocetraric acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—Rhodesia and Union of South Africa.
HABITAT.—On boulders in open areas.
- 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
