Xanthoparmelia subdiffluens Hale

Mycotaxon 30: 330 (1987) "Near Tatárszentgyörgy, Pest, Hungary, Boros s.n., Flora Hungarica Exsiccata 619 (W, lectotype; H, UPS, US, isolectotypes)".

 

Type: Hungary, Pest, near Tatárszentgyörgy, Boros s.n., Flora Hungarica Exsiccata 619 (W - lectotype; H, UPS, US - isolectotypes).

Thallus: loosely adnate to free growing on soil, 3 - 7 cm cm broad but breaking apart into separate lobes, darkish yellow green; lobes sublinear, 3 - 7 mm wide, strap-shaped and little branched, separate; upper surface finely white maculate, shiny, isidia and soredia lacking; lower surface plane, brown to dark brown, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines brown, simple, 0.5 - 1 mm long. Pycnidia unknown. Apothecia unknown (Hale 1987: 330).

Photobiont: Data lacking.

Chemistry: Salazinic acid, usnic acid (Hale 1987: 330).

Ecology: Free growing on soil.

Molecular data: Genbank

Distribution: Endemic in Hungary.

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