Lecanora strobilina, also known as the mealy rim lichen, is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. It was originally described as Parmelia strobilina by German botanist Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel in 1827.[2] It is distributed across North America and the Mediterranean but has become established in South America and the Galapagos. [3] It can be distinguished from other closely-related species in the genus (including L. confusa) by the presence of the polyphenolic compound decarboxysquamatic acid in thin-layer chromatography (TLC).[4]
Lecanora strobilina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
Order: | Lecanorales |
Family: | Lecanoraceae |
Genus: | Lecanora |
Species: | L. strobilina
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Binomial name | |
Lecanora strobilina | |
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References
edit- ^ "Synonymy: Lecanora strobilina (Spreng.) Kieff". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
- ^ Sprengel, C. (1827). Caroli Linnaei systema vegetabilium (in Latin). Göttingen, Sweden: Sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae. p. 300.
- ^ Bungartz, Frank; Elix, John A.; Printzen, Christian (4 February 2020). "Lecanoroid lichens in the Galapagos Islands: the genera Lecanora, Protoparmeliopsis, and Vainionora". Phytotaxa. 431 (1) – via Biotaxa.
- ^ Nash, T.H. III; Ryan, B.D; Gries, C.; Bungartz, F.; Diedrich, P. (2004). Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert, Vol. 2. Lichens Unlimited. ISBN 0971675910.