Comprehensive Description
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Relicina eximbricata
Relicina eximbricata (Gyelnik) Hale, 1974:484.
Parmelia samoensis Zahlbruckner var. eximbricata Gyelnik, 1938:288 [type-collection: Monte Rus, Cuba, Hioram 10506 (BP, holotype)].
Parmelia eximbricata (Gyelnik) Hale and Kurokawa, 1964: 143.
Thallus closely adnate on twigs or bark, 3–5 cm broad; lobes sublinear, 0.7–1.5 mm wide; upper surface plane and continuous; lower surface black, densely rhizinate, the rhizines simple. Apothecia very common (frequency 100%), adnate, 0.5–1.5 mm in diameter, the exciple coronate, the base often retrorsely rhizinate; spores 8, 4–5 × 6–9 μm.
CHEMISTRY.—Medulla K−, C−, KC−, P+ brick red, fumarprotocetraric, succinprotocetraric, and usnic acids.
HABITATS.—Trunks and branches of trees (cashew, Eugenia) in open areas from sea level to 600 m elevation.
DISTRIBUTION.—Florida and the West Indies.
- bibliographic citation
- Hale, Mason E., Jr. 1975. "A Monograph of the Lichen Genus Relicina (Parmeliaceae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.26
