Biology:Xanthoparmelia convoluta

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Short description: Species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae

Xanthoparmelia convoluta
Xanthoparmelia convoluta.jpg
In Whyalla Conservation Park, South Australia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Lecanoromycetes
Order: Lecanorales
Family: Parmeliaceae
Genus: Xanthoparmelia
Species:
X. convoluta
Binomial name
Xanthoparmelia convoluta
(Kremp.) Hale
Synonyms[1]
Growing abundantly at Whyalla Conservation Park, South Australia

Xanthoparmelia convoluta is a vagrant lichen in the family Parmeliaceae found in Australia. It lacks rhizenes that hold it to a substrate, so it lives its life moving about in the wind.[2]

Taxonomy

First described as Parmelia conspersa f. convoluta in 1871 by Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst, it was elevated from form to species in 1880 by August von Krempelhuber and was subsequently one of 93 species transferred to the genus Xanthoparmelia by Mason Hale 1974.[3][1][4]

See also

References

Wikidata ☰ Q10721144 entry