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| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Canoparmelia norpruinata Elix & J.Johnst. | ||
| Mycotaxon 31: 492 (1988). T: along the Steeple Flat road, 4 km E of Nimmitabel, N.S.W., 20 Jan. 1976, J.A.Elix 1626; holo: CANB. | ||
| Thallus adnate, to 5–10 cm wide. Lobes crowded, imbricate, subirregular, 2–7 mm wide, subascending or not; apices rotund. Upper surface pale grey to grey-green, shiny, becoming dull and markedly rugose, emaculate, lacking soredia, pustules and isidia, usually with granular white pruina towards lobe apices. Medulla white. Lower surface black to brown-black, with pale brown to ivory marginal zone; rhizines sparse to moderately dense, often more prominent subapically, simple to tufted, black. Apothecia common, sessile to subpedicellate, 3–17 mm wide; disc concave, becoming undulate-distorted and gyrose, epruinose, red-brown to dark brown-black; thalline exciple involute, smooth, shiny, often pruinose. Ascospores 9–11 × 6–8 µm. Pycnidia numerous, commonly elevated, crateriform. Conidia weakly fusiform to bifusiform, 7–8 × 1 µm. CHEMISTRY: cortex K+ yellow; medulla K-, C+ red, KC+ red, P-; containing atranorin, chloroatranorin, lecanoric acid (major) and, rarely, traces of orsellinic acid. | ||
| An endemic species scattered on bark of branches of trees and shrubs (and, rarely, on rock) in cooler, higher rainfall, upland areas of south-eastern Australia (N.S.W., A.C.T. and Vic. Reports from Tasmania are referable to Parmelina pseudorelicina (Jatta) Kantvilas & Elix (Kantvilas et al., 2002). | ||
| Elix (1994c) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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