Relicina ramosissima (Kurok.) Hale

Relicina ramosissima

Relicina ramosissima (Kurokawa) Hale, 1974:485.

Parmelia ramosissima Kurokawa in Hale and Kurokawa, 1964:145 [type-collection: Tenimber Island, Moluccas, Buwalda 4583 (BO, holotype; US, isotype)].

Thallus adnate, corticolous, 3–10 cm in diameter; lobes sublinear-elongate, 0.7–2 mm wide; bulbate cilia gradually inflated to gobose, becoming apically branched; upper surface plane, maculate; lower surface pale to dark brown, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines simple to densely branched and agglutinated, pale (Figure 8f). Apothecia common (frequency 93%), adnate, 1–2.5 mm in diameter, ecoronate, often retrorsely rhizinate at the base; spores 8, 2 × 3 μm.

CHEMISTRY.—Medulla K−, C−, KC+ reddish, P+ red, usnic acid, fumarprotocetraric acid, and succinprotocetraric acid.

HABITAT.—On trunk and canopy branches of dipterocarps in rain forest at 150–300 m elevation.

DISTRIBUTION.—Malaya, Philippines, Sabah, and Indonesia.