Flavopunctelia flaventior (Stirt.) Hale

Mycotaxon 20, 2: 682 (1984).

Basionym: Parmelia flaventior Stirt., Trans. Glasgow Soc. Fld Nat. 5: 212 (1877).

 

Description: Lichen. Thallus crustose large, closely adnate, lobes broad, rounded and somewhat dissected, crowded; margins wavy, entire to sorediate; upper surface yellowish-green to grey, pseudocyphellate, often with an indistinct patterned wrinkling; soralia marginal and linear, often sinuous, with farinose or subgranular soredia, or submarginal and capitate; medulla white; lower surface brown to black; rhizines simple to somewhat branched, sparse, dark; lobe edges bare; surface dull to somewhat shiny. Apothecia very rare (Sohrabi & Jamshidikia 2007: 5).

Photobiont: Data lacking.

Chemistry: Cortex K+, medulla K-, C+ red or pink, KC+ red, P-. Atranorin, usnic acid, lecanoric acid (Sohrabi & Jamshidikia 2007: 5 on Iranian samples).

Ecology: Mostly corticolous, rarely saxicolous (Sohrabi & Jamshidikia 2007: 5).

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