Bulbothrix meizospora

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Bulbothrix meizospora
Holotype of B. meizospora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Bulbothrix
Species:
B. meizospora
Binomial name
Bulbothrix meizospora
Synonyms[1]
  • Parmelia tiliacea var. meizospora Nyl. (1860)
  • Parmelia meizospora (Nyl.) Nyl. (1869)
  • Bulbothrix vainioi Jungbluth, Marcelli & Elix (2008)

Bulbothrix meizospora is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It is found in Africa, Asia, and South America, where it grows on tree bark.

Taxonomy

The lichen was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist William Nylander in 1860 as Parmelia tiliacea var. meizospora Nyl.;[2] he later transferred it to the genus Parmelia and promoted it to full species status in 1869.[3] In 1974 Mason Hale transferred the group of species called Parmelia series Bicornutae (Lynge) Hale & Kurokawa to the genus Bulbothrix, including Bulbothrix meizospora.[4] The type was collected in the Nilgiri Mountains in India.[1]

According to Michel Navarro Benatti, who wrote a 2012 review on the Bulbothrix species with medullary

lichen spot tests).[1]

Description

Bulbothrix meizospora has a greenish-grey

isidia are absent from the thallus. The medulla is white, while the lower thallus surface is dull, black, wrinkled, and papillate (covered with small protuberances), with a dark brown margin that measures 0.1–3 mm wide. Some of the lobes have simple (unbranched) black rhizines on the margins, while others have a rhizine-free border.[5]

The

Secondary compounds produced by Bulbothrix meizospora include atranorin and chloratranorin in the cortex, and consalazinic acid and salazinic acid in the medulla.[1]

Habitat and distribution

In Asia, Bulbothrix meizospora is found in India, Thailand, Pakistan, and Nepal. In Africa, it has been recorded from

Camaroon, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania. In South America, it is known from Brazil (originally reported as Bulbothrix vainioi).[1]

References

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  2. ^ Nylander, W. (1860). Synopsis Methodica Lichenum Omnium hucusque Cognitorum, Praemissa Introductione Lingua Gallica (in Latin). Vol. 1. p. 383.
  3. ^ Nylander, W. (1869). "Circa reactiones Parmeliarum adnotationes". Flora (Regensburg) (in Latin). 52: 289–293.
  4. ^ Hale, Mason E. (1974). "Bulbothrix, Parmelina, Relicina, Xanthoparmelia, four new genera in the Parmeliaceae (Lichenes)". Phytologia. 28 (5): 479–490.
  5. ^ a b c Jungbluth, Patrícia; Marcelli, Marcelo Pinto; Elix, John A. "Five new species of Bulbothrix (Parmeliaceae) from cerrado vegetation in São Paulo State, Brazil". Mycotaxon. 104: 51–63.