Pseudocyphellaria granulata is a species of foliose lichen in the family Lobariaceae. It is found in South America and New Zealand.
| Pseudocyphellaria granulata | |
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| in Omora Ethnobotanical Park (Navarino Island, Chile) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Lecanoromycetes |
| Order: | Peltigerales |
| Family: | Peltigeraceae |
| Genus: | Pseudocyphellaria |
| Species: | P. granulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Pseudocyphellaria granulata | |
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Taxonomy
editThe species was first described in 1855 by English naturalist Churchill Babington, as Sticta granulata. The original specimens upon which the description was made were collected on New Zealand's South Island.[2] Gustaf Oskar Andersson Malme transferred the taxon to the genus Pseudocyphellaria in 1899.[3]
Species interactions
editThe springtail species Pachytullbergia scabra (Collembola: Pachytullbergiidae) has been found inhabiting the epiphytic corticolous thalli of Pseudocyphellaria granulata in a cool temperate forest of Argentina, a rare documented instance of an arthropod-lichen association in this region.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Synonymy. Current Name: Pseudocyphellaria granulata (C. Bab.) Malme, Bih. K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., Afd. 3 25(no. 5): 21 (1899)". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ Hooker, J.D. (1855). The botany of the Antarctic Voyage II, Flora Novae-Zealandiae. Vol. 2. p. 281.
- ^ Malme, G.O.A. (1899). "Beiträge zur Stictaceen-Flora Feuerlands und Patagoniens". Bih. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. (in German). 25: 21.
- ^ Messuti, María Inés; Kun, Marcelo (2007). "The occurrence of Pachytullbergia scabra (Collembola: Pachytullbergiidae) on Pseudocyphellaria granulata (lichenized Ascomycota)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomològica Argentina. 66 (1–2): 177–179.
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