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Relicina sublimbata
Relicina sublimbata (Nylander) Hale, 1974:485.
Parmelia sublimbata Nylander, 1885:615 [type-collection: Yomah in Pegu, Burma, Brandis 595 (M, lectotype; H, isolectotype)].
Thallus adnate on bark or rock, coriaceous, 4–8 cm in diameter; lobes sublinear-elongate, 1–2.5 mm wide; bulbate cilia coarse, inflated, to 1 mm long; upper surface plane, continuous; lower surface black, densely rhizinate, the rhizines black, simple to sparsely branched. Apothecia adnate, 1–2 mm in diameter, ecoronate; spores 8, 4–5 × 5–6 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Medulla K+ reddish, C−, KC−, P+ orange red, usnic acid, fumarprotocetraric acid, and succinprotocetraric acid.
HABITAT.—On tree trunks and rocks at mid elevation (1300–1400 m in Thailand).
DISTRIBUTION.—Burma and Thailand.
- bibliographic citation
- Hale, Mason E., Jr. 1975. "A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Relicina (Parmeliaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.26
