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Parmeliella triptophylloides

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Parmeliella triptophylloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Peltigerales
Family: Pannariaceae
Genus: Parmeliella
Species:
P. triptophylloides
Binomial name
Parmeliella triptophylloides
P.M.Jørg. (2003)

Parmeliella triptophylloides is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) lichen in the family Pannariaceae. Found in east Africa, it was formally described as a new species in 2003 by Norwegian lichenologist Per Magnus Jørgensen. The type specimen was collected by Dutch mycologist Rudolf Arnold Maas Geesteranus in 1949, from the Cherang'any Hills (Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya) at an elevation of 900 m (3,000 ft).[1] In addition to the type locality, it has also been recorded from the Luhangalo Plateau in Tanzania.[2]

Parmeliella triptophylloides has a thallus that is both crustose (crusty) and squamulose (scaley), and in maturity breaks into areoles. The thallus rests upon a blackish, crust-like prothallus. The squamules are rounded to elongated, smooth and greyish-brown, measuring up to 1.5 mm (0.06 in) wide. Greyish-blue isidia covers the squamules and obscure the thallus. The lichen is somewhat similar in morphology to Parmeliella triptophylla; the specific epithet triptophylloides refers to this resemblance.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Jørgensen, Per M. (2003). "Notes on African Pannariaceae (lichenized ascomycetes)". The Lichenologist. 35 (1): 11–20. doi:10.1006/lich.2002.0424. S2CID 85601507.
  2. ^ Alstrup, V.; Christensen, S.N. (2006). "New records of lichens with cyanobacteriafrom Tanzania and Kenya" (PDF). Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 27 (1): 57–68.