Asahinea W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.

Version 1 March 2016
"Thallus small to large, 3-27 cm broad. Upper surface yellow, yellowish, tan, often mottled or edged in black, uniformly tan in old herbarium specimens; pseudocyphellate and nonisidiate or nonpseudocyphellate and isidiate; without marginal ciliae. Lower surface jet black, the margins brown, without rhizines throughout. Upper cortex 16-26 µ thick, prosoplectenchymatous, white or pigmented with purple or lavender in moribund parts near the lower cortex; lower ..." (Culberson & Culberson 1965: 182).

1. Asahinea chrysantha (Tuck.) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
   
2. Asahinea culbersoniorum Trass
   
3. Asahinea kurodakensis (Asahina) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.
   
4. Asahinea scholanderi (Llano) W.L. Culb. & C.F. Culb.