Xanthoparmelia bellatula (Kurokawa & Filson) Elix & Johnston

in Elix, Johnston & Armstrong, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist., Bot. 15(3): 203 (1986).

Basionym: Parmelia bellatula Kurokawa & Filson in Filson, Aust. J. Bot. 30, 5: 521 (1982).

 

Synonyms: Index Fungorum

Type: Australia, Victoria, 6 miles west of Redcliffs along Werrimull Road, Kurokawa 6620 (TNS - holotype MEL - isotype).

Protolog: Data lacking.
Type locality: Data lacking.
Barcode: Data lacking.
Coordinates: Data lacking.

 

Thallus: loosely adnate to nearly free growing on soil, firm but easily breaking apart, 2 - 4 cm broad, light yellowish gree; lobes sublinear, 0.6 - 1.5 mm wide, dichotomously branched, separate to imbricate with secondary weakly convoluted laciniae usually developing at the center with age; upper surface continuous, emaculate, shiny to dull, isidia and soredia lacking; medulla white; lower surface canaliculate with a yellowish rim, concolorous with the upper surface or pale brown, sparsely rhizinate, the rhizines pale brown or darkening, 0.5 - 1 mm long. Pycnidia lacking. Apothecia substipitate, 2 - 3 mm in diameter; spores absent (Elix 1990: 75).

Photobiont: Trebouxia.

Chemistry: Salacinic, consalazinic acid more or less, norstictic acid trace, protocetraric acid trace, usnic acid.

Ecology: On soil in scrub region with other terricolous species of Xanthoparmelia.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: Australia, NSW, Victoria, SA, WA. Database

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