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Pseudoparmelia eruptens
Pseudoparmelia eruptens (Kurokawa) Hale, 1974:190.
Parmelia eruptens Kurokawa in Hale and Kurokawa, 1964: 153 [type collection: Lydenburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, Almborn 7498 (LD, holotype; US, isotype)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus adnate, corticolous, whitish mineral gray to buff in the herbarium, 5–8 cm broad; lobes subirregular, rotund, 2–8 mm wide; upper surface plane, continuous, moderately isidiate-pustulate, the isidia irregularly inflated, basally constricted, bursting apically; lower surface black, sparsely rhizinate except for a narrow naked zone at the tips. Apothecia rare, adnate, 1–3 mm in diameter, the amphithecium coarsely isidiate; spores 8, 5–7 × 19–12 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC− or KC+ purple violet, P−; atranorin and divaricatic acid with associated unknowns.
DISTRIBUTION.—Moçambique and Union of South Africa.
HABITAT.—On trees (and rocks?) in open forest.
- 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
