Parmotrema abnuens is a species of corticolous lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first introduced to science in 1885 as a species of Parmelia by William Nylander in 1885, who described the lichen from samples collected in Uruguay.[1] Mason Hale transferred it to the genus Parmotrema in 1974.[2] The species has also been recorded from Brazil[3] and India.[4]

Parmotrema abnuens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Parmotrema
Species:
P. abnuens
Binomial name
Parmotrema abnuens
(Nyl.) Hale (1974)
Synonyms
  • Parmelia abnuens Nyl. (1885)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Nylander, W. (1885). "Parmeliae exoticae novae". Flora (Regensburg) (in Latin). 68: 605–615.
  2. ^ Hale, Mason E. (1974). "New combinations in the lichen genus Parmotrema Massalongo". Phytologia. 28 (4): 334–339.
  3. ^ Nagaoka, Lúcia Yoko; Marcelli, Marcelo Pinto (1989). "Líquens da área de reserva do Parque Estadual das Fontes do Ipiranga". Acta Botanica Brasilica (in Portuguese). 3 (2): 95–98. doi:10.1590/S0102-33061989000300009.
  4. ^ Mishra, Gaurav K.; Upreti, Dalip K. (2017). "The lichen genus Parmotrema A. Massal. (Lecanorales, Ascomycota) from India with addition distributional records". Cryptogam Biodiversity and Assessment. 2 (2): 18–40. doi:10.21756/cab.v2i02.11117.