Pseudocyphellaria argyracea
Appearance
Pseudocyphellaria argyracea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Peltigerales |
Family: | Peltigeraceae |
Genus: | Pseudocyphellaria |
Species: | P. argyracea
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Binomial name | |
Pseudocyphellaria argyracea | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Pseudocyphellaria argyracea is a species of foliose lichen in the family Peltigeraceae. It was first scientifically described in 1822 by Dominique François Delise.[2] Edvard Vainio transferred it to the genus Pseudocyphellaria in 1898.
Description
[edit]Pseudocyphellaria argyracea has a foliose thallus that ranges from rosette-forming to irregularly spreading. Its upper surface features laminal white soralia and pseudocyphellae, while the pseudocyphellae and lobe margins bear simple to coralloid isidia.[3]
Habitat and distribution
[edit]From East Africa to India, Japan, New Zealand, South America, and the Pacific islands, Pseudocyphellaria argyracea has a broad distribution in the Palaeotropics.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Pseudocyphellaria argyracea (Delise) Vain., Hedwigia 37(Beibl.): (35) (1898)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ Delise, D.F. (1822). Histoire de Lichens, Genre Sticta (in French). p. 91.
- ^ a b Ohmura, Yoshihito (2011). "Notes on Eight Threatened Species of Lichens in Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series B (Botany). 37 (2): 55–61.