Bulbothrix meizospora
Bulbothrix meizospora | |
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Holotype of B. meizospora | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Parmeliaceae |
Genus: | Bulbothrix |
Species: | B. meizospora
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Binomial name | |
Bulbothrix meizospora (
Nyl.) Hale (1974) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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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
Description
Bulbothrix meizospora has a greenish-grey
The
Habitat and distribution
In Asia, Bulbothrix meizospora is found in India, Thailand, Pakistan, and Nepal. In Africa, it has been recorded from
References
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- ^ Nylander, W. (1860). Synopsis Methodica Lichenum Omnium hucusque Cognitorum, Praemissa Introductione Lingua Gallica (in Latin). Vol. 1. p. 383.
- ^ Nylander, W. (1869). "Circa reactiones Parmeliarum adnotationes". Flora (Regensburg) (in Latin). 52: 289–293.
- ^ Hale, Mason E. (1974). "Bulbothrix, Parmelina, Relicina, Xanthoparmelia, four new genera in the Parmeliaceae (Lichenes)". Phytologia. 28 (5): 479–490.
- ^ 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.