Australian Biological Resources Study
| Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories | ||
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References | ||
| Relicina schizospatha (Kurok.) Hale | ||
| Phytologia 28: 485 (1974) Parmelia schizospatha Kurok. in M.E.Hale & S.Kurokawa, Contr. U.S. Natl Herb. 36: 146 (1964). T: Gegerbentang, Java, Indonesia, 27 June 1949, Neervoort 1062; holo: BO; iso: US. |
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| Thallus foliose, adnate, rather fragile, to 3–6 cm wide. Lobes contiguous, imbricate, sublinear, subdichotomously branched, rather short, 1–2 mm wide; cilia moderately dense, inconspicuous, tapering or globose, to 0.5 mm long. Upper surface pale yellow-green, flat, dull but shiny at apices, weakly maculate, laminally and marginally densely lobulate or lobulate-isidiate; lobules dorsiventral, simple to furcate, procumbent to subascending, with or without isidia initials, lobules sometimes developing minute bulbate cilia; upper cortex not columnar. Lower surface black; rhizines moderately dense, simple, black. Apothecia rare, to 3 mm wide; disc shallowly concave, pale brown to cinnamon-brown; thalline exciple with scattered bulbae or cilia, isidiate. Ascospores subglobose, c. 5 × 4 µm. Pycnidia not seen. CHEMISTRY: cortex K-, UV-; medulla K+ pale yellow, C+ faint yellow-orange, P+ yellow; containing usnic acid, echinocarpic acid, conechinocarpic acid, unidentified compounds (traces) and ±atranorin. | ||
| Grows on bark, more rarely on rock, in coastal and drier hinterland areas of north Qld. Also occurs in West Malaysia, Indonesia, Sabah, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. | ||
| Elix (1994v) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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