Parmelina

Parmelina
Parmelina tiliacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Parmelina
Hale (1974)
Type species
Parmelina tiliacea
(Hoffm.) Hale (1974)

Parmelina is a genus of lichen belonging to the family Parmeliaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1974 by American lichenologist Mason Hale with Parmelina tiliacea assigned as the type species.

Species

All species of Parmelina with an Australasian-South African distribution were transferred to the new genus Austroparmelina in 2010.

References

  1. ↑ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
  2. ↑ Hale, Mason E. (1974). "Bulbothrix, Parmelina, Relicina and Xanthoparmelia, four new genera in the Parmeliaceae". Phytologia. 28 (5): 479–490.
  3. ↑ Nuñez-Zapata, J.; Divakar, P.K.; Del-Prado, R.; Cubas, P.; Hawksworth, D.L.; Crespo, A. (2011). "Conundrums in species concepts: the discovery of a new cryptic species segregated from Parmelina tiliacea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota), and the status of P. pastillifera revisited". Lichenologist. 43 (6): 603–616. doi:10.1017/S002428291100051X.
  4. ↑ Crespo, Ana; Ferencova, Zuzana; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Elix, John A.; Divakar, Pradeep K. (2010). "Austroparmelina, a new Australasian lineage in parmelioid lichens (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 8 (2): 209–221. doi:10.1080/14772001003738320. S2CID 84715679.