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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 | ||
| Xanthoparmelia remnantia (Elix) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Elix, D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch | ||
| Taxon 53: 970 (2004); Neofuscelia remnantia Elix, Mycotaxon 59: 407 (1996). T: Western Australia. Yilliminning Rock, 18 km NE of Narrogin, 32°57'S, 117°22'E, 320 m, on large exposed granite outcrop, J. A. Elix 41058b, H. T. Lumbsch & H. Streimann, 12 Sept. 1994; holo: CANB. | ||
| Thallus minutely foliose to subcrustose, saxicolous, adnate to moderately adnate, 0.5-0.7 cm wide. Lobes separate, sublinear, dichotomously to irregularly branched, 0.1-0.3 (-0.5) mm wide. Upper surface reddish brown to black-brown, convex, slightly shiny at the lobe apices, becoming rugose and cracked with age, sparsely isidiate towards the centre; isidia globose, simple, with syncorticate, intact apices. Medulla white. Lower surface black to brown-black; rhizines sparse, black, simple, robust. Pycnidia and apothecia not seen. CHEMISTRY: Cortex K-, HNO3+ dark blue-green, medulla K-, C-, P-; containing 4-O-methylphysodic acid (major), a-collatolic acid (trace), physodic acid (trace). | ||
| Known only from the type locality on south-western W.A. | ||
| Elix (1996a) | ||
| Checklist Index |
| Introduction | A–D | E–O | P–R | S–Z | Oceanic Islands | References |
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