Xanthoparmelia callifolioides Adler, Elix, and Johnston

in Elix & Johnston, Mycotaxon 31(2): 505 (1988).

 

Synonyms: Index Fungorum

Type: Argentina, Salta Province, Las Pailas, 2280 m, February 1986, Adler s.n., (BAFC - holotype; ANUC, US - isotypes).

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

 

Thallus: loosely adnate to nearly free growing, 5-10 cm broad, light yellowish green; lobes sublinear, 1,5-3 mm wide, subdichotomously branched, lobulate toward the center, the laciniae elongate, 0,7-1,2 mm wide, plane to weakly convoluted, imbricate; upper surface continuous, emaculate, shiny, soredia and isidia lacking; medulla white; lower surface plane, weakly canaliculate, light brown, simple or sparsely branched, 1-2 mm long. Pycnidia common; conidia bifusiform, 0,5 x 5-6µm. Apothecia lacking.

Photobiont: Trebouxia.

Chemistry: Salazinic acid (major), consalazinic acid, norstictic acid (+/- trace), protocetraric acid (+/- trace), usnic acid.

Ecology: on soil and pebbles.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: Database

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