''Lepidocollema wainioi'' is a species of
lichen
A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.[Pannariaceae
The Pannariaceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales (suborder Collematineae). Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especially prevalent in southern temperate regions.
Genera
According to a recent (202 ...]
. It is known from southeast Asia.
Taxonomy
This lichen was originally
formally described by Finnish lichenologist
Edvard August Wainio as ''Pannaria sorediata'', based on material collected from the
Philippines.
However, Wainio was unaware that this name had already been used for another taxon by
Charles Knight in 1882, and so the name ''Pannaria sorediata'' was an illegitimate
homonym, and therefore, not
validly published.
Austrian botanist
Alexander Zahlbruckner
Alexander Zahlbruckner (31 May 1860, Svätý Jur – 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian- Hungarian botanist who specialized in the study of lichens. Johann Babtist Zahlbruckner, an earlier Austrian botanist, was his grandfather.
From 1878 to 1883 ...
, in his 1925 work ''Catalogus Lichenum Universalis'', renamed the lichen in honour of Wainio, and it then became known as ''Pannaria wainioi'' .
transferred the species to the genus ''
Parmeliella
''Parmeliella'' is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Pannariaceae
The Pannariaceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales (suborder Collematineae). Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especial ...
'' in 2003.
In 2014, the family
Pannariaceae
The Pannariaceae are a family of lichens in the order Peltigerales (suborder Collematineae). Species from this family have a widespread distribution, but are especially prevalent in southern temperate regions.
Genera
According to a recent (202 ...
was revised with the aid of modern molecular phylogenetics, and ''Parmeliella wainioi'' was one of 23 tropical species transferred into the formerly
monotypic genus ''
Lepidocollema
''Lepidocollema'' is a genus of lichens in the family Pannariaceae. It was circumscribed in 1890 to contain a single Brazilian species that has not been collected since. In 2016, the entire family was revised and updated, resulting in the expansi ...
''.
Description
The lichen has a
thallus that ranges from squamulose (covered with minute scales) to foliose (leafy) with lobes that are somewhat linear to linear at the margin. Farinose (mealy)
soredia are present at the lobes along the margin. The lower surface of the thallus has brown to black
rhizines.
Habitat and distribution
''Lepidocollema wainioi'' was originally described from collections made in the Philippines. It was also reported from
Koh Kut Island (Thailand) in 2016, where it was found growing in an ''
Avicennia''-''
Sonneratia'' mangrove zone.
References
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Pannariaceae
Lichen species
Lichens described in 1925
Fungi of Asia
Taxa named by Alexander Zahlbruckner