Smithson. Contr. Bot. 74: 157 (1990).

Based on Parmelia stenophylloides var. propagulifera E.A. Vainio, 1890. Nom. superf., Art. 63.1, circumscription includes the type of a name (Xanthoparmelia neopropagalifera (V.K. Gyelnik) M.E. Hale, 1987) which ought to have been adopted.

Synonyms: Parmelia propagulifera (Vain.) Gyelnik, 1938b: 39 [Not Parmelia propagulifera Vainio, 1899b: 123]. Index Fungorum

Type: Brazil, Minas Gerais.

Basionym: Parmelia stenophylloides var. propagulifera Vainio, 1890: 62.

Type: Brazil, Caraa, Minas Gerais, Vainio: Lich. Bras. Exs. 1241b (TUR, lectotype).] Thallus: thightly adnate on rock, 4-6 cm broad, light yellowish green but darkening somewhat with age; lones sublinear, 0,4-0,8 mm wide, elongate and dichotomously branched, separate to contiguous; upper surface continuous, emaculate, shiny, transversely chracked with age, moderately to densely isidiate, the isidia cylindrical, 0,05-0,07 mm in diameter, 0,1-0,4 mm high, the tips syncorticate, darkening, simple to sparsely branched; medulla white; lower surface plane, pale or darker brown, shiny, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines stout, unbranched, 0,1-0,2 mm long. Pycnidia and apothecia lacking.

Chemistry: Stictic (major), constictic, norstictic and usnic acids.

Ecology: Tightly adnate on rock.

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Distribution: Venezuela, Brazil

Photobiont: Trebouxia.

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Molecular data: Genbank

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