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Pseudoparmelia alabamensis
Pseudoparmelia alabamensis (Hale and McCullough) Hale, 1974:189.
Parmelia alabamensis Hale and McCullough, 1968:44 [type collection: St. Clair County, Alabama, Hale and McCullough 24072 (US; isotypes in DUKE, UPS)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate on rock, ashy white, 2–4 cm broad; lobes narrow and sub-linear, contiguous, 0.8–1.2 mm wide; upper surface transversely cracked with age, sorediate, the soralia laminal, capitate; lower surface black, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines black. Apothecia unknown.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC− or rose, P+ red; atranorin and protocetraric acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—United States (Tennessee and Alabama).
HABITAT.—On large sandstone rocks in open deciduous forests at about 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
