Hypotrachyna endochlora (Leight.) Hale

Smithson. Contr. Bot. 25: 34 (1975).

Basionym: Parmelia endochlora Leight., Lich. Fl. Gr. Brit.: 140 (1871)

 

Thallus: loosely attached, olive-buff, 8 - 13 cm in diameter; lobes plane to concave, dichotomously branched, sublinea-elongate, 2 - 5 mm wide, 160 - 200 µ thick; margins more or less crenate, often narrowly black-rimmed; upper surface shiny, weakly white-maculate, pustulate near the tips, pustules soon becoming granular; medulla pale cendre-green, K-; undersurface black, rhizinate, vinaceous-buff and short rhizinate in a narrow zone at the tips, rhizines black, shiny, dichotomously branched, projecting beyond the margins. Apothecia very rare, 4 - 14 mm in diameter. Spores hyaline, 6 - 13 x 18 - 22 µ. (Kurokawa & Mineta 1973: 72).

Chemistry:

Ecology: On bark.

Distribution: Europe, Sri Lanka, Taiwan.