Relicina schizospatha (Kurok.) Hale

Relicina schizospatha

Relicina schizospatha (Kurokawa) Hale, 1974:485.

Parmelia schizospatha Kurokawa in Hale and Kurokawa, 1964:146 [type-collection: Gegerbentang, Java, Neervoort 1062 (BO, holotype; US, isotype)].

Thallus adnate, corticolous, rather fragile, 3–6 cm in diameter; lobes short, sublinear, 1–2 mm wide; bulbate cilia not conspicuous or dense; upper surface plane, faintly maculate, becoming more or less densely lobulate along the margins and surface, the lobules dorsiventral, procumbent to sub-ascending, sometimes dactyloid branched, rarely with marginal bulbils (Figure 16); lower surface black, moderately rhizinate, the rhizines simple. Apothecia unknown.

CHEMISTRY.—Medulla K− yellow, C− or C+ faint orange, KC−, P+ orange, usnic and echinocarpic acids and a C+ unknown.

HABITAT.—On trunk and branches of Quercus and other trees in rain forest at 1300–1600 m elevation.

DISTRIBUTION.—Malaya, Philippines, Sabah, and Indonesia.