Biology:Platismatia erosa

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Platismatia erosa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Platismatia
Species:
P. erosa
Binomial name
Platismatia erosa
W.L.Culb. & C.F.Culb. (1968)

Platismatia erosa is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in Asia, it was formally described as a new species in 1968 by William and Chicita Culberson. The species epithet erosa refers to the "eroded" quality of the reticulations on the upper thallus surface.[1] The lichen has been recorded from Japan , Taiwan, Java, Vietnam, Nepal, the Philippines , and Sikkim, and Tibet. Chemical analysis of the lichen (using thin-layer chromatography) revealed two lichen products previously unknown in genus Platismatia, pannaric acid and jackinic acid. Two chemotypes of P. erosa have been identified, containing different proportions of these substances.[2]

References

  1. Culberson, William Louis; Culberson, Chicita F. (1968). The Lichen Genera Cetrelia and Platismatia (Parmeliaceae). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 34. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 449–558 [526]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/399682. 
  2. Obermayer, Walter; Randlane, Tiina (2012). "Morphological and chemical studies on Platismatia erosa (Parmeliaceae) from Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan". The Bryologist 115 (1): 51–60. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-115.1.51. 

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