Zeora strobilina

Zeora strobilina
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Lecanoraceae
Genus: Zeora
Species:
Z. strobilina
Binomial name
Zeora strobilina
(Spreng.) L.M.Weber & Ivanovich (2025)
Synonyms
  • Parmelia strobilina Spreng. (1827)
  • Lecanora varia var. strobilina (Spreng.) Th.Fr. (1871)
  • Lecanora symmicta f. strobilina (Spreng.) H.Olivier (1884)
  • Lecanora varia f. strobilina (Spreng.) Flagey (1884)
  • Lecanora conizaea var. strobilina (Spreng.) Flagey (1895)
  • Lecanora strobilina (Spreng.) Kieff. (1895)
  • Lecanora conizaea f. strobilina (Spreng.) H.Olivier (1897)

Zeora 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. The species was long treated in Lecanora, but was later transferred to Zeora when that genus was resurrected for the former Lecanora symmicta group in 2025. It is distributed across North America and the Mediterranean region, and has also become established in South America and the Galápagos. It can be distinguished from other closely related species, including Z. confusa, by the presence of the polyphenolic compound decarboxysquamatic acid in thin-layer chromatography.

References

  1. ↑ NatureServe. "Lecanora strobilina". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy. Current Name: Zeora strobilina (Spreng.) L.M. Weber & Ivanovich, in Ivanovich-Hichins, Weber, Li, Leavitt, Muggia, Palice, Pérez-Ortega, Sohrabi & Printzen, Lichenologist 57: 300 (2025)". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 19 January 2026.
  3. ↑ Sprengel, C. (1827). Caroli Linnaei systema vegetabilium (in Latin). Göttingen, Sweden: Sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae. p. 300.
  4. ↑ Ivanovich-Hichins, Cristóbal; Weber, Lilith; Li, Lijuan; Leavitt, Steven D.; Muggia, Lucia; Palice, Zdenek; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Sohrabi, Mohammad; Printzen, Christian (2025). "New phylogenetic insights into the lichen genus Lecanora s. lat. (Lecanoraceae, Ascomycota): resurrection of the genera Glaucomaria, Straminella and Zeora". The Lichenologist. 57 (6): 278–303. doi:10.1017/S0024282925101321. hdl:10261/417443.
  5. ↑ Bungartz, Frank; Elix, John A.; Printzen, Christian (2020). "Lecanoroid lichens in the Galapagos Islands: the genera Lecanora, Protoparmeliopsis, and Vainionora". Phytotaxa. 431 (1). doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.431.1.1.
  6. ↑ 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.