Xanthoparmelia fucina M.D.E. Knox

J. S. Afr. Bot. 49, 2: 148 (1983).

 

 

Synonyms: Index Fungorum

Type: xxx.

 

Thallus: adnate, 3-6 cm broad, yellowish green; lobes subirregular, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, short, continuous; upper surface continuous, emaculate, shiny, moderately isidiate, the isidia cylindrical,0.06-0.15 mm in diameter, 0.2-1 mm high, the tips syncorticate, pale branched, sparingly branched; medulla white; lower surface plane, pale brown, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines pale brown, simple or branched, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Pycnidia and apothecia lacking.

Photobiont: Trebouxia.

Chemistry: Protocetraric acid, usnic acid.

Ecology: on rock.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: Database

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