''Pseudocyphellaria brattii'' is a species of foliose lichen in the family Peltigeraceae. It was described as new to science in 1997 by lichenologists

David John Galloway David John Galloway , FRSNZ (7 May 1942 – 6 December 2014) was a biochemist, botanist, and lichenologist. Biography Galloway grew up in Invercargill. After graduation from Southland Boys' High School, he studied at the University of Otago. As ...

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Gintaras Kantvilas Gintaras Kantvilas (born 1956) is an Australian lichenologist, who earned his Ph.D in 1985 from the University of Tasmania with a thesis entitled ''Studies on Tasmanian rainforest lichens''. He has authored over 432 species names, and 167 gener ...

. The type specimen was collected along Mt. Dundas Track ( Tasmania), where it was found growing on dead wood in a rainforest at an altitude of . The

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

honours Tasmanian lichenologist Geoffrey Charles Bratt, who, according to the authors, "helped to keep Australian lichenology alive during the 'lean years'". The lichen is endemic to Tasmania, where it is uncommon. It typically grows in deep shade on logs, or

on plants ''On Plants'' ( el, Περὶ φυτῶν; la, De plantis) is a botanical treatise included in the Corpus Aristotelicum but usually regarded as Pseudo-Aristotle. In 1923, a manuscript containing the original Arabic translation from Greek, as don ...

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brattii Lichen species Lichens described in 1997 Lichens of Australia Taxa named by David Galloway (botanist) Taxa named by Gintaras Kantvilas {{Peltigerales-stub