Comprehensive Description
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Pseudoparmelia schistacea
Parmelia schistacea Kurokawa and Filson, 1975:44 [type collection: 65.5 km west of Kingoonya, South Australia, Filson 11921 (MEL, holotype) (not seen)].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate, pale olivaceous gray, 2–4 cm broad; lobes sublinear-elongate, crowded at the center of the thallus, 0.5–1.5 mm wide; upper surface plane to convex, shiny, becoming tangentially rimose, pustulate; medulla white; lower surface pale brown, sparsely rhizinate. Apothecia not seen.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC−, P−; atranorin, a trace of usnic acid, caperatic acid, and an unidentified fatty acid.
DISTRIBUTION.—Australia.
HABITAT.—On rocks 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
