Xanthoparmelia examplaris Elix & Johnston
in Elix, Johnston & Armstrong, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist., Bot. 15, 3: 243 (1986).
Synonyms: Index Fungorum
Type: Australia, N.T., 8 km N of Pimba along Stuart Highway, Elix 11043A (CBG - holotype).
Thallus: adnate to tightly adnate, firm, 5-8 cm broad, yellowish green; lobes sublinear, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, irregularly branched, the ultimate ones subascending; upper surface continuous, emaculate, shiny, strongly rugose-bullate at the center, isidia and soredia lacking; medulla white; lower surface or main lobes plane, secondary lobes weakly convoluted and subascending, pale but darkening toward the tips, sparsely to moderately rhizinate, the rhizines pale brown, thin, simple, 0.5-1 mm long. Pycnidia common; conidia bifusiform, 0.5 x 4-5 µm. Apothecia common, substipitate, 1-4 mm in diameter; spores 4-5 x 7 µm.
Photobiont: Trebouxia.
Chemistry: Salazinic acid, consalazinic acid, protocetraric acid (+/-trace), usnic acid.
Ecology: on rock.
Molecular data: Genbank
Distribution: Database
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