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Pseudoparmelia carneopruinata
Pseudoparmelia carneopruinata (Zahlbruckner) Hale, 1974: 189.
Parmelia carneopruinata Zahlbruckner, 1902:419 [type collection: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Höhnel 164 (W, lectotype)].
Parmelia sbarbaronis Bouly de Lesdain, 1923:278 [type collection: Catalupe, Varezze, Liguria, Italy, Gresino 11467 (F, lectotype)]
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate, corticolous, greenish mineral gray or in the herbarium buff, 5–9 cm in diameter; lobes sublinear, 1–2.5 mm wide; upper surface strongly reticulately ridged and rugulose, becoming pruinose near the lobe tips, sometimes densely lobulate, sorediate, soralia about 1 mm wide, often coalescing; lower surface black, sparsely rhizinate. Apothecia rare, adnate, 1–4 mm in diameter, the disc pruinose or naked, the amphithecium sorediate; spores 8, 6–9 × 9–13 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K+ yellow, C−, KC−, P+ pale orange; atranorin, stictic acid, and constictic acid with associated unknowns.
DISTRIBUTION.—Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and southern Europe.
HABITAT.—On shade trees in banana and coffee plantations and on deciduous trees in open pastures at 300–2000 m elevation.
- bibliographic citation
- Hale, Mason E., Jr. 1976. "A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Pseudoparmelia Lynge (Parmeliaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-62. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.31
