Melanohalea trabeculata is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. It was first formally described by Finnish lichenologist Teuvo Ahti in 1966 as Parmelia trabeculata.[2] Ted Esslinger transferred the species to the new genus Melanelia in 1978, which he circumscribed to contain the brown parmeliae species.[3] In 2004, it was moved to the newly circumscribed genus Melanohalea.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Lecanorales |
| Family: | Parmeliaceae |
| Genus: | Melanohalea |
| Species: | M. trabeculata
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| Melanohalea trabeculata | |
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Ahti collected the type in the Cochrane District of Ontario, Canada, on the west end of Martison Lake. There he found it growing on the trunk of a large willow tree on the lake shore. He suggested that it is a strictly North American species with a transcontinental boreal range.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy: Melanohalea trabeculata (Ahti) O. Blanco, A. Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D. Hawksw. & Lumbsch". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ a b Ahti, T. (1966). Parmelia olivacea and the allied non-isidiate and non-sorediate corticolous lichens in the northern hemisphere. Acta Botanica Fennica. Vol. 70. Helsinki: Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. p. 54.
- ^ Esslinger, Theodore L. (1978). "A new status for the brown Parmeliae". Mycotaxon. 7 (1): 45–54.
- ^ Blanco, Oscar; Crespo, Ana; Divakar, Pradeep K.; Esslinger, Theodore L.; Hawksworth, David L.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2004). "Melanelixia and Melanohalea, two new genera segregated from Melanelia (Parmeliaceae) based on molecular and morphological data". Mycological Research. 108 (8): 873–884. doi:10.1017/S0953756204000723. PMID 15449592.
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