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Pseudoparmelia labrosa
Pseudoparmelia labrosa (Zahlbruckner) Hale, 1974:190.
Parmelia tenuirima var. labrosa Zahlbruckner, 1941:108 [type collection: Saddle Hill, Dunedin, New Zealand, Thomson V34 (W, lectotype)].
Parmelia labrosa (Zahlbruckner) Hale, 1968:325.
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus adnate on bark, light buff mineral gray, 4–8 cm broad; lobes subirregular, apically subrotund, 1.5–3 mm wide; upper surface plane to rugulose, shiny, sorediate, the soralia originating from coarse pustular ridges, becoming irregular to diffuse; lower surface black and moderately rhizinate. Apothecia adnate, 3–5 mm in diameter; the rim sorediate; spores 8, 5 × 10–12 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C+, KC+ red, P−; atranorin and lecanoric acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.
HABITAT.—On trees (Drachophyllum, Myrsine, Hymenanthera, and Betula) in open woods at low 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
