Biology:Lethariella cashmeriana

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Short description: Species of lichen

Lethariella cashmeriana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Lethariella
Species:
L. cashmeriana
Binomial name
Lethariella cashmeriana
Krog (1976)

Lethariella cashmeriana is a species of fruticose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae.[1] It was formally described as a new species in 1976 by Hildur Krog. The species epithet cashmeriana refers to Jammu-Kashmir, where the type specimen was collected.[2] The lichen is one of three species of Lethariella that is used as a purported health-promoting tea in Yunnan, China.[3] It contains atranorin, canarione, gyrophoric acid, and norstictic acid (minor) as lichen products.[4]

References

  1. "Lethariella cashmeriana Krog". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6PQJP. 
  2. Krog, H. (1976). "Lethariella and Protousnea, two new lichen genera in the Parmeliaceae". Norwegian Journal of Botany 23: 83–106. 
  3. Wang, Li-song; Narui, Takao; Harada, Hiroshi; Culberson, Chicita F.; Culberson, William Louis (2001). "Ethnic uses of lichens in Yunnan, China". The Bryologist 104 (3): 345–349. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2001)104[0345:EUOLIY2.0.CO;2]. 
  4. Obermayer, Walter (2001). "On the identity of Lethariella sinensis Wei & Jiang, with new reports of Tibetan Lethariella species". Lichenological Contribution in Honour of Jack Elix. Bibliotheca Lichenologica. 78. Berlin & Stuttgart: J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Bornträger Verlagsbuchhandlung. pp. 321–326. 

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