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Hypogymnia Papilliformis
''Hypogymnia papilliformis'' is a rare species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in China and the Russian Far East, it was species description, formally described as a new species in 2015 by Bruce McCune, Svetlana Tchabanenko, and Xin Li Wei. The type (biology), type specimen was collected by the second author in the Lazovsky Nature Reserve (Primorsky Krai, Russia) at an altitude of ; here, in a mixed forest, mixed conifer–broadleaved forest, it was found growing on Korean pine (''Pinus koraiensis''). The lichen has also been recorded from a mixed forest in the mountains of Shaanxi Province in China, at an altitude of . The botanical name, specific epithet ''papilliformis'' alludes to the papillose texture (i.e., covered with pimple-like structures) of the upper thallus surface. Secondary metabolite, Secondary compounds that occur in ''Hypogymnia papilliformis'' include atranorin, and physodic acid as major metabolites, and minor amounts of 2'-O-methylphysodic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce McCune
Bruce Pettit McCune (born 1952) is an American lichenologist, botanist, plant ecologist, and software developer for analysis of ecological data. Biography McCune grew up in Cincinnati. He completed his freshman year of college at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and then transferred to the University of Montana in the autumn of 1971. There he graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in botany. From 1971 to 1974 McCune and his then girlfriend, Patricia S. Muir, spent considerable time on Mount Sentinel, where they investigated lichens, mosses, and other plants. From 1974 to 1975 he travelled and also worked for two summers in Montana for the Bureau of Land Management. From 1976 to 1979 he was a graduate student at the University of Montana, where he graduated with a master's degree. In August 1979 he married Patricia Muir. She graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Montana. In 1979 the couple matriculated as graduate students at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |