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Pseudoparmelia raunkiaeri
Pseudoparmelia raunkiaeri (Vainio) Hale, 1974:191.
Parmelia raunkiaeri Vainio, 1915:19 [type collection: Cane Bay, St. Croix, Raunkiaer 461 (TUR, Vainio herbarium number 2752, lectotype; C, FH, isotypes)].
Parmelia scabrosa Vainio, 1896a:33 [type collection: Chateau Belair, St. Vincent, Elliott 249 (TUR, lectotype; BM, isolectotype); not Parmelia scabrosa Taylor, 1847:162 (= Xanthoparmelia scabrosa (Taylor) Hale)].
Parmelia vincentina Zahlbruckner, 1929:222 [type collection: based on Parmelia scabrosa Vainio].
DESCRIPTION.—Thallus closely adnate on bark, light buff mineral gray, 5–8 cm broad; lobes sub-irregular, apically rotund, 2–4 mm wide; upper surface plane, becoming irregularly rugose toward the center, pustulate-sorediate, the pustules coalescing in a coarsely sorediate mass in older portions; lower surface black and sparsely rhizinate except for a narrow bare, brown zone at the tips. Apothecia unknown.
CHEMISTRY.—Cortex K+ yellow, medulla K−, C−, KC−, or C+ KC+ rose; atranorin and protocetraric acid with or without gyrophoric acid and unidentified fatty acids.
DISTRIBUTION.—West Indies and Mexico.
HABITAT.—On trees in dry, open or secondary forest at sea level to 500 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
