Biology:Placomaronea mendozae

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Short description: Species of lichen

Placomaronea mendozae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Candelariomycetes
Order: Candelariales
Family: Candelariaceae
Genus: Placomaronea
Species:
P. mendozae
Binomial name
Placomaronea mendozae
(Räsänen) M.Westb. (2004)
Synonyms[1]
  • Candelariella vitellina var. mendozae Räsänen (1941)

Placomaronea mendozae is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Candelariaceae.[2] Found in South America and the United States, it was formally described as a new species in 1941 by Finnish lichenologist Veli Räsänen. The type specimen was collected in Las Heras, Mendoza (Argentina) in 1939. Räsänen named it as a variety of Candelariella vitellina;[3] Martin Westberg promoted the taxon to distinct species status in 2004.[4] The lichen occurs along the Andes in Argentina and Peru, and in Arizona, USA. It is the only Placomaronea that has been found in North America.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Westberg, Martin; Frödén, Patrik; Wedin, Mats (2009). "A monograph of the genus Placomaronea (Ascomycota, Candelariales)". The Lichenologist 41 (5): 513–527. doi:10.1017/S0024282909990156. 
  2. "Placomaronea mendozae (Räsänen) M. Westb.". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/6VNKD. 
  3. Räsänen, V. (1941). "La flora liquenologica de Mendoza (Argentina)". Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, Buenos Aires E III 131: 97–110 [100]. https://nhm2.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL/PDF1/M29507.pdf. 
  4. Westberg, M. (2004). "Placomaronea". Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. 2. Tempe, Arizona: Lichens Unlimited, Arizona State University. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-9716759-1-9. 

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